GUN-POINTING COP GETS 11.5 to 23 months

A MOTHER AND daughter sat in the same courtroom yesterday with the ex-Philly cop who turned their lives upside down.

Phal Seang, 42, and Kim Seang, 26, had come to see Brien Greene get sentenced to 11 1/2 to 23 months in prison for threatening their lives and pointing a gun at them during an incident at the family's West Philadelphia doughnut shop on Jan. 11.

The women were so shaken that they have sold the shop on 52nd Street near Market, which their family had owned for 15 years, and moved out of the city.

"My father was not comfortable leaving us in the store," Kim Seang said during a victim-impact statement. "He was upset that he was not there to protect us." She spoke of being "paralyzed" with fear when Greene pulled a handgun and repeated several times that "he would blow our heads off."

Phal Seang was still too afraid to make a statement, Assistant District Attorney Meriah Russell told Common Pleas Judge Rayford A. Means.

Greene, 28, who was off duty and wearing street clothes, was arrested and fired several weeks after the incident. In June, he pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and possession of an instrument of crime.

Greene apologized profusely and attempted to explain his actions from the witness stand. "I've never done anything like that. I wasn't raised like that," he insisted. "This is something that was bizarre, a one-time thing."

Looking at his victims, Greene said he had embarrassed himself and his family. "I'm not a bad person. I know it might not seem like it, but I'm a good person. I help people."

Defense attorney Timothy Strange asked Means to sentence Greene to 10 years' probation, arguing that he had lost his job, custody of his two children and was to enroll in technical school.

Russell said Greene had already received second chances and was headed toward hurting someone.

She cited two incidents in which Greene was not charged criminally. As a police cadet in February 2008, he violated department policy, and a supervisor recommended that he be dismissed after a handgun was found in his car during a traffic stop; and in July 2010 he was briefly detained after police found him heavily armed after firing off several rounds near Cobbs Creek.