Sex trap by lesbian cop, says officer
A STATE APPEALS court judge temporarily blocked Monday the release of NYPD body camera footage, the Daily News has learned.
Associate Justice Rosalyn Richter of the Manhattan Appellate Division made her decision less than two weeks after Justice Shlomo Hagler ruled against the city’s largest police union in its recent lawsuit over body-cam recordings.
The NYPD doesn’t allow the blanket release of body-cam video, but had agreed to release some clips on an individual basis.
The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association had charged in its Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit that even releasing excerpts violates Section 50-a of the state Civil Rights Law — which the city has controversially claimed bars the release of disciplinary and personnel records.
Body-worn camera footage, the PBA has claimed, amounts to a sort of personnel record — meaning that its release would be barred under 50-a. AN NYPD COP on trial for transporting coke and pot fell into a honey trap set by an attractive lesbian undercover officer assigned to take her down, her attorney suggested Monday.
Nysia Stroud, 30, was being watched closely by the department when she was approached by a curvy, attractive woman she came to know as “Bronx hairdresser” Lisa, who would eventually get her to take the wheel during a handful of drug runs between April and June 2017.
“Lisa,” posing as a part-time drug courier, was really undercover Officer 5063 and part of a team investigating Stroud.
The undercover, on cross-examination by defense attorney Alex Grosshtern at the drug possession and official misconduct trial, admitted that Stroud may have felt a spark.
“I just wanted her to trust me . . . and yes, we flirted,” she said in Manhattan Supreme Court.
The undercover said nothing physical transpired, but Grosshtern suggested the NYPD planted a seductress whom Stroud could not refuse.
But the undercover defended her sometimes teasing talks with Stroud as natural for her. “For me, it’s very normal. This is my personality,” she said.