Smirking bully New York cop charged in attack on female MTA worker

[marmar]

A New York Police Department officer attacked a woman worker on a subway platform, then ran away grinning to himself, according to the New York Daily News.

An internal affairs investigation began on Thursday after the officer turned himself in. He was caught on camera leaving the scene of the attack, which took place around 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 23.

A 28-year-old female employee of the Metropolitan Transit Authority reported to police that she was attacked and slammed to the concrete on the southbound D train platform at the Tremont Avenue station. The man who attacked her wrapped his hands around her throat and choked her, she said. She was hospitalized for injuries to her neck and back.

Cameras in the station caught an image of the off-duty, out-of-uniform cop smirking to himself as he exited the turnstiles. ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/smirking-bully-new-york-cop-charged-in-attack-on-female-mta-worker/

[geek tragedy]

1. Have they actually charged him? nt

[MrScorpio]

2. What the fuck is wrong with these assholes? nt

[joeybee12]

3. Bully cop is redundant, IMHO...knr

[KG]

4. lemme guess - paid vacation?

[MannyGoldstein]

5. More great PR for NYPD

The hits keep coming.

[etherealtruth]

6. Internal review ... what about criminal charges?

He claims she "cursed at him" and "tried to steal his phone" ....? WTF? Does this even make sense?

This looks like a large "burly" man .... claiming that this woman approached him , cursed at him and tried to steal his phone .... something is missing here.

I guess she is lucky that he did not claim she pulled a gun on him.

[Savannahmann]

7. Just to make sure I have this straight.

The cop is now claiming that he was assaulted, and resisted an attempted theft. So instead of arresting the perpetrator, he dispensed a little street justice?

Ok, now, I'm a little fuzzy here, but is that the way the cops are keeping busy during the slowdown?

[lunasun]

8. And she was an MTA employee . Who was trying to steal his phone while she was working

[Savannahmann]

9. I know, believe me I know.

The old saying about there being two sides to the story. Well his side of the story not only looks weak, and asinine, but even if it is true, means he is into that whole Death Wish Vigilante thing. You know, he's a big fan of the Bernard Goetz shooting people in the subway. The kind of guy who has Chuck Norris posters on the wall of his bedroom in the basement of his parents house.

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. ..

[lunasun]

10. "a Harlem officer who the department declined to name..."..watch out Harlem people

Odds are this guy will be back on the beat if precedent prevails

This started after an argument about a question he had during the train reroute . Hothead didn't like the reroute maybe so may have escalated to choking on the ground

And, as Pix-11 reported:

Investigators said the man, who’s 5 feet, 10 inches tall, weighing about 190 pounds bear-hugged a 28 year-old uniformed conductor, threw her to the ground and began to choke her.

She was working with another conductor, directing platform traffic that had to be rerouted due to train service changes. That fellow conductor managed to pull the attacker off of his co-worker while the man was trying to choke her, according to their union, TWU Local 100

[BDavinciNY]

11. I'm a MTA Employee

I'm a MTA Employee that is very outraged that this off duty cop did this to one of our own!! Working in the subways late at night as a platform comductor when there's trackwork is often a risky job to do. When service on the subway is disrupted and that subway line have to make a diverson usually a platform conductor is placed there to explain to passengers what the diverson is and how to go around it to get to where they are going. It's sometimes risky because most because some passengers are annoyed that their train is not going to stop at a specific station and have to go to the next major station ahead then reach the stop they want to get off at going the other way. When I worked platform, I had annoyed to slightly angry passengers but they grumbled on their way as they were going to their destination. I never had someone like this a-hole here to deal with. What he did was uncalled for because what happened to the female conductor could've happened to anyone of us!! I could have been there and that could have happen to me. Many of the people at the job are angry about it and rightfully so. I guess PBA President Patrick Lynch is going to call this cop "a model police officer" like he spoke of Officer Pantleo and was using the same takedown techniques to the conductor like Pantleo did to Eric Garner. This cop MUST be charged with assault to a public employee like himself and kicked out of the force and not sweeped under the rug!! I repect the police as we work with them daily .However its harder and harder for me as a transit worker and a Black Man to respect them.

TWU President Samuelson statement on this incident: http://bit.ly/1A27Ahn