Posted on 06/24/2023 8:35:24 AM PDT by lowbridge
A white undercover cop claims his colleagues of color refused to give him backup during violent confrontations with suspects because of his race, forcing him to quit the force in fear for his life.
NYPD Detective John Olsen, a former Marine, said he could have been killed at least twice after Hispanic, Asian and black cops working with him stood idly by while he was attacked twice during drug buys gone awry in 2019, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court.
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The red flags appeared almost immediately, he said.
While training for undercover work, Olsen said he was the only white officer.
A senior detective ominously commented: “A white undercover, this will be fun.”
Within his first few months on the job, Olsen said he was surrounded and punched in the face in front of a car full of detectives during a drug buy in Harlem.
The other detectives photographed the attack but did not intervene because they didn’t want to risk “being tainted by association with a white undercover,” Olsen said in court papers.
“They watched [the attacker] walk back inside the housing projects,” Olsen said. “It was totally against our rules for narcotics to let that go.”
Undercover detectives are required to have another officer nearby, called a “ghost,” who can jump in when danger arises, Olsen said. But he was often ghosted by his ghost.
“The second an undercover’s life is in danger or someone gets assaulted, the field team is supposed to move in immediately to apprehend the person and rescue the officer,” he said.
After the incident, the lead detective told him, “Sorry kid, I’m not doing anything, this isn’t 1992,” according to the filing.
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Who could have ever guessed...
I thought the only color was blue?
The charge has been leveled that the detectives are corrupt. It stands as so until refuted by those accused. I guess it’s guilty until proven guilty.
Paging Frank Serpico...
Typical progression of Leftist positions. From “people of color can’t be racist” to people of color have a right to be racist.
Beat me to it.
It sounds like he was getting in the way of some good deals.
Sounds like the POC detectives were on the take.
Didnt we already see this script in the series ‘Low Winter Sun’ about corruption and murder within the Detroit MI police force?
“So, inclusion doesn’t include White people?”
We get included at tax time.
Serpico with a racial slant?!!
>Didnt we already see this script in the series ‘Low Winter Sun’ about corruption and murder within the Detroit MI police force?
Yeah, or the Memphis police murdering a dude because he was fooling around with one of their wives? The guys are on the take and the white guy’s the odd man out. If he dies, everyone’s happy.
Small wonder that NYC is spiraling down the toilet. Look at who “governs” that shit hole.
Wellll,every cop has to have a side hustle...It pays to be a cop of color...The crooks are just waiting to hand them money...More criminals than there are cops....
Who do you think they’re building all those “FEMA” camps for?
We should not let them take us there alive.
We should make them pay it when they come for us.
“White undercover NYC detective says he was targeted by colleagues for his race”
How did they know he was white if he was undercover?
The USA is now a banana republic......only without the bananas, or the republic.
I was disappointed that show got cancelled, though it was hard to follow much of the time.
No kidding. My thoughts exactly, racism now ok in Serpicos NYPD
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