18 U.S. Code § 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law:
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
I disapprove of what this cop did, but I don't really see anything in the Constitution that prevents cops from saying insulting things.
The New York Post also mentioned Genovese “was armed to the teeth with a licensed assault rifle.” The description is very misleading since the police only found one rifle in her car
How many rifles do you have to carry to be "armed to the teeth?" How many can you shoot at one time?
Even Breitbart gets this wrong. The Post claim is not only misleading but false unless she was transporting a legal fully auto rifle. Since that's pretty unlikely, what he should have said was she was armed to the teeth with a licensed "assault weapon."
The term has, at most, a legal meaning in the state of NY, but at least it's not false.
Finally, the Post article doesn't say, but I suspect the claims of abusive language are made by Ms. Genovese and contested by the cops.
They may very well have been made, but considering all the recent accusations by leftwingers against the cops, possibly we should not automatically assume any accusation by someone on our side is necessarily the truth.
The Post and Breitbart articles, as usual, both blend together facts and assertions by one side in the case.