New York Post – by Shawn Cohen
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.
The CCRB on Wednesday interviewed Sanjay Seth, the passenger who captured the belittling rant on his cellphone, according to the man’s Twitter page.
In the video posted Monday on YouTube, Cherry blows up in the driver’s face after the Uber driver apparently honked at him and gave him the finger as he tried to park his unmarked car along the West Side Highway in Greenwich Village.
“Just gave testimony to CCRB,” Seth wrote Wednesday. “The investigation is in their hands. Here’s to a quick, fair, and thorough resolution to this incident.”
If a CCRB judge finds Cherry guilty of misconduct, he could end up with a permanent mark on his record, sources said. But any disciplinary action would be solely up to Bratton, who ultimately has final say.
Cherry has been the subject of a dozen prior CCRB complaints, going back more than 10 years, some for exhibiting the same sort of verbal abuse, a source said.
Warning: Graphic language
The one-sided shouting match was recorded by Seth as he and another man were riding in the backseat of the driver’s vehicle, and shows Cherry barking into the driver’s face through the open door, at times mocking the man’s accent.
“Stop it with your mouth. Stop it with your ‘For what sir, for what sir.’ Stop it with that bulls–t, and realize the three vehicle and traffic laws you committed,” Cherry screams during the three-minute tirade.
“I don’t know what f–king planet you think you’re on right now. Now sit in your f–king car and stay there,” he shouts before slamming the door.
The abuse continues when Cherry walks back to the car and starts to speak to the driver, identified in the video only as “Humayun.”
But when the driver responds with an “OK,” the cop goes off on him again.
“OK what? You don’t let me f–king finish. Stop interrupting me,” he screams. “Who do you think you’re talking to here?”
“Every time I open my mouth, you have something to say.”
The officer was trying to park an unmarked car along the West Side Highway in Greenwich Village without using a blinker, according to statements made in the video.
That’s when the Uber driver pulled around and flipped the plainclothes cop off — sending him into a rage.
“You’re driving up my a— when I’m trying to park the car and then you have to do something with your hands,” he says.
“I don’t know where you’re coming from, where you think you’re appropriate in doing that; that’s not the way it works. How long have you been in this country?”
At the end of the video, the cop tells the shell-shocked driver that the only reason he isn’t being arrested is because the officer is too busy.
“The only reason you’re not in handcuffs going to jail and getting summonses in the precinct is because I have things to do,” he says. “This isn’t important enough for me. You’re not important enough.”
Uber spokesman Matt Wing said the berated driver did not receive a summons.
“The behavior in the video is wrong and unacceptable and we appreciate the NYPD investigating the incident,” he said. “We are in touch with our driver-partner who was subjected to this terrible experience and will continue to provide any support he needs.”
http://nypost.com/2015/04/01/cop-that-berated-uber-driver-stripped-of-badge-and-gun/
He’ll just pop up somewhere else doing the same old crap…..
You are exactly right, hoppes. He’ll reappear at a “new Masonic Lodge location.” That’s “how they do it”, ……and this IS fact.
Guess you can’t ticket someone for ‘failure to be clairvoyant’….
What I have to say about this jerk cop is this; I have never even once came away from a one on one street confrontation such as this feeling good. That’s because such behavior warranted nothing less than physical force from me. Never. I want to be left alone to live my life. If I violate someone else’s right to do the same, which I don’t do, I’m would be engaging in a criminally punishable activity. In my simplistic way of thinking, it’s justifiable/actionable on my part, to reply with force if necessary. Not equal force but enough to quell the threat, whatever that may be. All of these guys in the car should have gotten out of the car at once in unison. These small tyrants need to be put in their place which is below ‘we the people’. This is bigger than just what this scum cop did. He swore an oath to defend the rights of the people via Our Constitution. His actions is visible evidence that he 1. violated his oath. 2. That he breached the ‘peace’. This peace subject in law is a little known nor understood aspect. Yet, it applies to EVERYONE. And it still has teeth. These police/policy enforcer bosses are between a rock and a hard place because, they are aware that although such crimes are being done and worse all across OUR nation on a daily basis, once the people have had enough and we take the ‘gloves’ off, then it’s equal dieing time. And they are way outnumbered. All of this lawlessness is like water in a pot getting near the boiling point. They’re mostly all following their NWO masters orders. Some for a paycheck and others because they love the feeling of power and even murdering others. And, believing they are a part of the group. In my opinion, the NWO freak controllers have already crossed the Rubicon. These stupid minion administrators will go along with this as programmed idiots and sacrifice all of those lower than them in the pecking order. All the way to D.C. which is their head, they believe the lie that since ‘they’ve been able to do this tyranny and disarming scam for what ever reason posed, that they can do it here. They are miserably wrong. They will never disarm us to the point that they will overcome us. We have been chosen as a people, as a country, as an example to all the other nations on our planet, that YOU CAN SAY NO. And back it up with the same determination of force that they have. In our case, we say. DEATH TO THE NWO, WE ARE ON THE MARCH, BUT THEY ARE ON THE RUN. Of course! They are cowards. Like cockroaches they don’t want anyone to know of their duplicitous hearts. They have chosen to be on the wrong side. We have chosen, truth, Righteousness, Grace, Mercy, Christ, God, Angels, on our side.They serve the Devil, Satan, who was already stripped of all his previously given authority long ago. So, could it be that the masses of the worlds populations are being convinced to go along to get along under a massive confidence scam? I guess we’ll all find out at the end/judgment time. Doug
If the cop would have shot the driver, he would have keep his job abd would be promoted.