Posted on 04/02/2015 5:57:20 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter
The NYPD detective who was caught on video chewing out an Uber driver has been stripped of his shield and gun, and will be placed on modified duty, Police officials said.
Detective Patrick Cherry has been removed from the department’s elite Joint Terrorism Task Force and will be doing desk duty until he is officially transferred out of the prestigious division.
“No good cop should watch that video without a wince,” Commissioner Bill Bratton said at a Wednesday press conference. “Because all good cops know that officer just made their jobs a little bit harder.”
“In that kind of encounter, anger like that is unacceptable,” Bratton continued. “In any encounter, discourtesy and obscene language like that is unacceptable.
“That officer’s behavior reflected poorly on everyone who wears our uniform.”
The incident was being investigated by the Internal Affairs Bureau before being taken over by the Civilian Complaint Review Board, police said.
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Not only being filmed; but being challenged and filmed at the same time.
I don’t know what the Uber driver did .. but seeing his nationality, I suspect it was a set-up. While police have to do what they have to do .. it can and will be used against them.
Uber drivers are presenting problems all over the place. Is it on purpose ..??
Hold on for a tick.
Cops are military-raiding homes, often the wrong ones, shooting dogs and innocent people......
.....and THIS is what they discipline over?
Hell, I watched the video, he didn’t seem any different than any of the cops I have met in Georgia. I was not so shocked when I watched.
YES!!! I am totally with you!!! The foreign driver took the time to identify the cop, followed him for days (with a fare in the back seat), until the cop tried to park without signalling, honked once, in order to provoke the cop into this overreaction!!!11!!
The cop deserves to be suspended at the very least.
:) Love your sarcasm. Are you sure we aren’t related?!!
Tell ya what, wanna know how bad the situation is?
Go out to the Rutherford Institute. A conservative site that tracks/reports abuses of power.
Disturbing stuff.
https://www.rutherford.org/
We can be! By marriage! Simply say the word!
I’m pretty sure I’d have gone to jail.
I would have let him rant for a bit...then after all the foul language being thrown at me. Yea, I’dda pissed him off even further.
But, if the cop would have had to shoot him for some reason, he’d still be with badge and gun and only on vacation...
imho
I realize that .. but the key is our police are under attack all over the place. They need to realize they’re a target; and they will be filmed.
I’m not exonerating the officer.
The other day at the Publix Supermarket in Plant City, Florida I engaged an older man in conversation while waiting in line. I learned that he was retired from the police force in Plant City. What stood out in the entire conversation was something he said. He said that he could not understand the attitude of the younger guys. That most of his career he had worked in the projects and never had any trouble. That he treated everyone he came in contact with as a human being and how he would like to be treated. And if an arrest was called for, he made it. All the people there, including the criminal element respected him and he is welcome there today.
I fixed it for ya.
Poorly but accurately
BS.
LOL; Like to lick shoes do you ..??
Keep cheering on the thugs. They’ll get around to you eventually.
That is a very good way of putting it.
“I” don’t need fixing .. thank you.
“cheering on the thugs”
What are you drinking .. cesspool water.
Sure that's right.
And Vermont socialists reflect poorly on everyone who lives in Vermont.
And that would be you.
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