HATE AND HARASSMENT DIRECTED AT COPS IN HARLEM

Disturbing video shows men harassing NYPD cops

 

By Larry Celona, Craig McCarthy and Natalie Musumeci

 

New York Post

April 9, 2021

 

A gang of men surrounded an NYPD vehicle this week, shouting obscenities like “bitch” at the officers inside, according to a disturbing video posted by New York City’s largest police union.

 

 

In the roughly two minute clip – which police sources say was taken on Tuesday in upper Manhattan — a group of men can be seen surrounding an NYPD SUV as one asks a cop inside the vehicle for their badge number. 

“Twenty-three, 54 for this dirty motherfucker,” one man holding a loudspeaker shouts.

During the interaction at West 155^th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, another man placed a small, pink toy pig on top of the hood of the cop car.

“That’s a pig. That’s a gift for you, bitch,” someone yells, according to the video.

As the NYPD car begins to roll away, the man with the loudspeaker then shouts into the device while facing the front of the vehicle in the middle of the street, saying, “Get the fuck out of the fucking hood,” the clip shows.

“Get the fuck out! Move!” the man shouts.

The patrol car continues to drive away as the man yells, “You piece of shit,” the video shows.

The same man can then be seen taunting more cops who drove past in an NYPD auxiliary car.

The Police Benevolent Association said in a tweet along with the video: “Listen to the hate and harassment directed at these two @NYPD30Pct Neighborhood Coordination Officers. Why? No reason apart from the uniform.”

“We know these haters don’t speak for the community. But the politicians think they do. That’s the problem. #WeNeedPolice,” the tweet read.

Police say no one was arrested in connection to the incident.