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COVER STORY Gary with his friends from the Cutchogue (Long Island) Police Department. I was cleared. But how I was treated before, during and afterward is not right. I have written a lot of stuff down, and if anybody was going to print anything, why not NJ Cops?” Spath provided never-before-seen thoughts and reactions to the incident you are about to read here and how it continues to affect him. He will elaborate on those thoughts when he keynotes the 2016 NJ State PBA Mini Convention in Atlantic City March 7-11. That address, and the excerpts here, will help him finally “let it go,” because, as he reminds, nobody can truly understand what he went through other than cops. Gary with his wife, Nancy. Now living in Cutchogue on the North Fork of Long Island where he has served a local high school as security officer, de facto school www.njcopsmagazine.com n FEBRUARY 2016 29