New York Daily News

Finest in bizarre smash-in

- BY THOMAS TRACY

Someone, somewhere is writing a country music song about this.

An NYPD officer is a suspect in a bizarre burglary that took place 900 miles south of the five boroughs — in Tennessee's famed Music City, where he allegedly kicked in the front door and used a racial slur against a black woman he found inside, officials said Thursday.

Nashville police confirmed that the NYPD officer — who they did not name — was questioned in regards to the July 9 break-in.

The cop, who works in upper Manhattan, traveled to Nashville on Tuesday to be questioned by detectives.

Officials believe the cop was staying at an Airbnb in Nashville's 12 South neighborho­od when he mistook his rental for a woman's home on Ashwood Ave.

He forced his way inside and broke down the door about 2:30 a.m., victim Conese Halliburto­n told WKRN Nashville, which first reported the story.

"It's like, 'Boom! Boom! Boom' beating at the door," Halliburto­n told the television station last month. "You heard the big boom and that was my door getting kicked in.”

“My sons were trying to stop him and he's like, 'This is my motherf------ house, this is my house!'” she remembered. “He kept repeating it."

Haliburton and her children told him he had the wrong address, but he didn't believe her.

When he finally left, he threatened to break every bone in Haliburton's neck and called her the N-word, she said.

Some of the incident was captured on her neighbor's surveillan­ce cameras.

According to an incident report filed by Nashville police, the man who broke in was “heavily intoxicate­d and disoriente­d” and was “slurring his words.”

“(He) most likely just walked into the wrong house,” the report states.

So far, no charges have been filed against the officer.

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