New York Daily News

Hate in the fam

Sis of race-rant cop backs him on Facebook

- BY JOSEPH STEPANSKY and GRAHAM RAYMAN

RANTING SEEMS to run in the family.

The sister of a NYPD detective who posted racist Facebook messages came to his defense via the same social media network that got the officer in trouble.

Detective Gregory Gordon’s conduct is currently under review by the NYPD after the Daily News first reported he had — among other things — called Mayor de Blasio’s wife Chirlane McCray a “former crack addict.”

“What’s sad is ‘he’ spoke the truth on his private forum and some sad individual is trying to bring a good cop down,” Marissa Carbonara wrote on the Staten Island Advance’s Facebook page Thursday night. “Don’t people have anything better to do?!”

Carbonara also insisted Gordon, 33, was just exercising his First Amendment rights and making “factual statements.”

When another Facebook user called the person who informed The News of the posts a “lurking rat,” Carbonara agreed and described the person as a “trolling c---.”

At her home on Friday, a woman denied knowing Carbonara — but seemed well aware of the ongoing Facebook controvers­y.

“You should be ashamed of yourself for all the dirty media you put in your paper. These people protect your rights,” she said.

A former highrankin­g police official said Gordon clearly crossed the line when posting those comments.

“It shows issues of judgment,” he said. “Being a police officer, you walk a very thin line. You are supposed to be above that. If you sink to that level, you are demeaning the department standards you have sworn to uphold.”

In August 2014, Gordon griped about a woman who told a TV reporter it was hard growing up black.

“Are you f------ kidding me? Stop acting like anyone owes you anything. Slavery ended 149 years ago,” he wrote.

The NYPD quickly distanced itself from the comments Thursday.

Department policy advises cops to “exercise good judgment and demonstrat­e the same level of profession­alism expected of them while performing their official duties.”

And Gordon’s Facebook page, which had been set to private, was deactivate­d Thursday afternoon after The News called him for comment.

In a statement Friday night, Michael Palladino, President of the Detectives’ Endowment Associatio­n, said he understand­s that “some may be offended by (Gordon’s) remarks.”

“Cops have become the targets of intentiona­l violence which makes their job even harder and solves nothing but to perpetuate hate.

“If the press were to scrutinize the Facebook pages of the anticop hate groups they would find comments much worse and more inflammato­ry but that never appears in the news.”

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