User blog:GunjiBunny/Charles Becker's Lieutenant Badge WIP

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Origin
Charles Becker (1870 – 1915) was a Lieutenant in the New York City Police Department between the 1890s and the 1910s. He is best known for being tried, convicted and executed for the murder of a Manhattan gambler, Herman Rosenthal. Becker became the first American police officer to receive the death penalty for murder. It wasn't his only crime as it came out that he allegedly had been using his position to extort substantial sums, at least one hundred thousand dollars from brothels and illegal gambling casinos in exchange from immunity from police interference. Becker was arrested in 1912 and executed 1915, he went to the chair profession his innocence. He told the warden that he originally wanted to get Rosenthal out of the city, that killing him was Jack Rose's idea. Rose was one of the prosecutors against Becker at his trial. His execution was at Sing-Sing and somehow it was done poorly. Becker's electrocution took nine minutes causing him intense agony. Due to Becker's belief and faith in the badge he wore it to the chair.

Effects
Wearer becomes immune to electrical attacks, The moral line between good and evil becomes gray.