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The man in the video is a member of the NYPD’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, an elite group that handles counterterrorism cases in the city alongside FBI agents.
He has been placed on modified duty and transferred, Commissioner Bratton said.
From NBC-NY: “He really should not be judged by one isolated incident,” said Michael Palladino, the president of the union.
Bratton disagreed, saying, “In that kind of encounter, anger like that is unacceptable. In any kind of encounter, discourtesy like that and language like that is unacceptable.”
“No good cop can watch that without a wince,” he said. “All good cops know that the officer just made their jobs a liittle bit harder.”
YouTube Description: Police abuse of Uber driver in New York City. In an unmarked car, the policeman was allegedly attempting to park without using his blinker at a green light. (His reverse lights weren’t on. Likely double parked without hazards on.)
The Uber driver pulled around and gestured that he should use his blinker, casually and non-offensively, and kept driving us. The policeman aggressively pulls up behind us and this is what happens.
(This occurred just before 2pm on the West side of Manhattan, in police precinct 6, on March 30th, 2015. The officer did not identify himself, but he had a New York license plate: GSS 8891)
