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FBI agent on stakeout parked in a Queens bus stop roughs up, handcuffs traffic agent for writing ticket
http://www.nydailynews.com ^

Posted on 04/23/2022 6:51:41 PM PDT by algore

An FBI agent on Queens stakeout clapped handcuffs on the wrong man — a uniformed city traffic enforcement agent who wrote him up for parking illegally, the traffic agent and law enforcement sources told the Daily News.

Traffic agent Dipankar Dipu said he was still nursing an injured shoulder four days after his Sunnyside clash with fuming fed Kenneth Diu, who was parked between a metered spot and a bus stop.

“I can’t say what made him react so unprofessionally,” Dipu told The News on Saturday. “I was just doing my job. Why he assaulted me and humiliated me in front of people, I don’t know. I’m just suffering as a result.”

The federal agent was accused of assaulting and then handcuffing Dipu after the traffic agent refused to void the parking summons last Tuesday, police said.

As of Saturday, no charges had been filed against the FBI agent — but leaders of the traffic agents’ union said they hope the Queens District Attorney takes action.

Dipu, 33, was making his rounds along Greenpoint Ave. and 46th St. in Sunnyside about 2:30 p.m. when he spotted the black 2015 Jeep Cherokee with tinted windows, police and union officials said.

“The Jeep was about 30% in the bus stop area and about 70% in a meter zone,” recalled Dipu. “There was another car completely in the bus stop and I went to that car and the told the motorist to move, which he did.

“Then I came back to the Jeep. I was trying to look through the window to see if there was anybody in the car, but I couldn’t see anything.”

Dipu, noting the vehicle lacked a meter receipt, was about to stick a ticket under the Jeep’s windshield wiper when he heard some rustling from inside. Just after he placed the ticket on the window, he said, the Jeep’s occupant put an FBI placard on the car’s dashboard.

Dipu said he wouldn’t have ticketed the vehicle if he knew the driver was a federal law enforcement agent, but was unaware of the situation until after the summons was written.

A moment later, an infuriated Diu exited the Jeep and demanded that Dipu void the summons.

“He was very arrogant,” recalled Dipu, a native of Bangladesh. “He became angry with me, yelling at me to ‘Void the ticket! Void the ticket! You have to void the ticket!’”

Dipu explained that was impossible in the ticketing system, and advised the agent to contact his supervisor. Diu instead delivered his bizarre response: “I’m going to arrest you.”

“He tried to snatch my machine from my hand, but I resisted him,” Dipu recalled. “But the second time he snatched it from my hand forcefully and I could not protect it. He took it, went into the car and locked the door.”

The FBI agent used the device to somehow cancel his ticket, with a void slip popping out of the ticket printing device on Dipu’s belt.

The traffic agent had already called for a supervisor when Diu jumped out of the Jeep and threw him up against the vehicle.

“He just pushed me forcefully on the bonnet of his car and put both of my hands behind my back forcefully,” Dipu said. “It was just so humiliating. People were looking all around and I could hear people talking about me. I felt so down at the time.”

Diu managed to get one cuff on before the traffic agent’s supervisor and nearby police showed up.

“For the FBI to be embarrassing members in uniform is disgusting,” said Olufemi Sokunbi, executive vice president of Local 1182, which represents traffic enforcement agents.

“The FBI is supposed to be protecting everybody. Thank God for the NYPD police officers that showed up and were able to deescalate the situation.”

All involved went to the 108th Precinct, where Diu was ultimately released without charges and forced to pay the parking violation, police said.

An investigation into the incident was ongoing, an NYPD spokeswoman said on Saturday. An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment.

Dipu, who joined the department in 2019 and worked throughout the COVID pandemic, was taken to Mount Sinai Astoria with pain in his left shoulder, cops said.

“This cannot be happening to my members. We get assaulted for doing our job for the city every day and nobody cares,” said Sokunbi. “Nobody is above the law.”


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KEYWORDS: donutwatch; fbi; fbiscum; kennethdiu; ticket
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1 posted on 04/23/2022 6:51:41 PM PDT by algore
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To: algore

He lied about not being able to void the ticket.


2 posted on 04/23/2022 6:58:04 PM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: algore

The Stasi think they are the law.


3 posted on 04/23/2022 6:58:14 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: algore

I know one living nearby. This agent parks the government provided car anywhere at anytime, especially when street cleaning is posted. The agent does not care, has never been ticketed, and has agent’s own car safely parked in a reserved parking place. These guys and gals feel they are immune from the law.


4 posted on 04/23/2022 7:02:39 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: algore

FBI agents are special. A special kind of a**.


5 posted on 04/23/2022 7:03:18 PM PDT by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer)
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To: Lurkinanloomin; StolarStorm

I watched this show once called parking wars, does that make me a bad person?


6 posted on 04/23/2022 7:03:33 PM PDT by algore
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To: StolarStorm

Damn lying ticket writer -now angling for a shoulder injury settlement.


7 posted on 04/23/2022 7:08:21 PM PDT by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: algore

Something about this story stinks. If the FBI agent was on stakeout, having the officer not ticket the vehicle would make it suspicious.

8 posted on 04/23/2022 7:09:52 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: algore
“I can’t say what made him react so unprofessionally,” Dipu told The News on Saturday

Why would Dipu wonder about the FBI's failure to act professionally? The Demonicrats have weaponized the FBI as the Deep State version of Antifa.

9 posted on 04/23/2022 7:11:06 PM PDT by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: algore
The FBI was probably checking out a 'noose' report.

What happened to Bubba Wallace’s noose?
The FBI learned that garage number 4, where the noose was found, was assigned to Bubba Wallace last week. The investigation also revealed evidence, including authentic video confirmed by NASCAR, that the noose found in garage number 4 was in that garage as early as October 2019.

The FBI assigned 14 agents to investigate the Bubba Wallace "noose" incident ... zero agents to investigate the Hunter Biden lap top incident.<

The FBI is totally and across the board corrupt.

10 posted on 04/23/2022 7:11:29 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: algore

“Calling the case of Dipu versus Diu. Presiding Judge Dippity Do.”


11 posted on 04/23/2022 7:17:24 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: algore

“Traffic agent Dipankar Dipu” -— When my family came to this country in various stages, decades ago, they Anglicized their names, and named their children “American” names. I do not recognize this mess of a country.


12 posted on 04/23/2022 7:17:50 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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> He lied about not being able to void the ticket. <

I’ll bet he meant that he could not legally void the ticket without approval from a supervisor. Anyway, I hope this bully FBI agent gets fired, and charged with assault.


13 posted on 04/23/2022 7:17:54 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Fungi

Slash his tires. #resist #wolverines


14 posted on 04/23/2022 7:18:05 PM PDT by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: Larry Lucido

do not forget Olufemi Sokunbi in the peanut gallery


15 posted on 04/23/2022 7:18:56 PM PDT by algore
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To: Leaning Right

Once he found out op was LEO he could have voided it. Sounds like there was an ego battle going on with both of them.


16 posted on 04/23/2022 7:21:25 PM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: PghBaldy
I looked him up on NYC public records, he's making 38 grand a year so in NYC he probably can't AFFORD to change his name, LOL.


17 posted on 04/23/2022 7:23:22 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: BluH2o

“The FBI assigned 14 agents to investigate the Bubba Wallace “noose” incident ... zero agents to investigate the Hunter Biden lap top incident.”

Did not know that, but at least they know where the laptop is in case they want to investigate it ?


18 posted on 04/23/2022 7:23:55 PM PDT by algore
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To: algore
Dipu said he wouldn’t have ticketed the vehicle if he knew the driver was a federal law enforcement agent,

Unequal treatment under the law.

19 posted on 04/23/2022 7:26:06 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is i)
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To: algore

Lying to an FBI agent needs to not be a crime.


20 posted on 04/23/2022 7:26:38 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? Homer Simpson)
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