New York Daily News

Man in vid spews hate at cop; Finest stays cool, issues ticket

- BY THOMAS TRACY AND ESHA RAY

A new video has surfaced of NYPD cops being cursed out on the job — this time, by a man who claims he was stopped and frisked “illegally” on a Brooklyn street.

The video, taken last Tuesday on 53rd St. near Fifth Ave. in Sunset Park, shows the man turning the camera on each of the six officers and demanding to know their names.

At one point the man, identified as Chris, calls them “f-----s.”

One cop, identified only as Officer Chan, tries to calm him down, telling him, “If you keep yelling obscenitie­s like this, you're going to get a summons.”

Chris erupts: “The crowd is here because of y'all walking up on me illegally! Illegally!

“You did not suspect me of committing a crime,” he continues. “You came up to me with some b---s--- a-- excuse that I matched the descriptio­n of somebody with a firearm. Y'all searched me, didn't find no f-----g firearm on me, and y'all detained me.

“You guys took my freedom away from me for 15 f-----g minutes for no f-----g reason!” he yells.

Officer Chan and Chris go back and forth for several minutes. At one point, Chris says, “Watch what I do to y'all n----s, y'all violated my f-----g rights!”

“Bye Chris, we're going to leave now,” Officer Chan says.

“Suck my d—k,” Chris responds. He later adds, “You like it up the a-right, you f----t?”

The officers turn to leave toward Fifth Ave. as Chris follows them. The video finally ends when Officer Chan cuffs the man after giving him several warnings to “stop yelling obscenitie­s.”

Authoritie­s say the police were looking for a gunman on the loose when they stopped Chris around 2:30 p.m. because he matched their descriptio­n.

The cops let Chris go upon realizing that he wasn't their guy, prompting his outburst, police said.

“The officers exercised great restraint,” the NYPD said in a statement.

The video is the latest showing New Yorkers cursing out cops.

Last Monday, an NYPD sergeant was caught on camera being shouted down by a man inside the 28th Precinct stationhou­se on Frederick Douglass Blvd. in Harlem.

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