Cop gets thousands of threats

An NYPD lieutenant in Queens has been bombarded with more than 2,000 threatening calls and texts on his departmentissued phone following a Black Lives Matter rally Sunday.

The cop, whose name is being withheld to prevent further harassment, was hit with the angry barrage of messages shortly after a demonstration in Bayside, during which police made one arrest, sources told The Post.

“Messages state ‘Let are (sic) friend go,’ ‘We have all of your personal info,’ ‘Watch your back, we will blast you,’ ” according to an internal NYPD e-mail Sunday.

“Text messages have photos of heads, arms and legs being cut off. Intel notified.”

The department is conducting an investigation to determine how the lieutenant’s department phone number got out, according to the sources.

“We take threats against our officers very seriously,” the NYPD said in a statement Tuesday. “While we won’t comment on the specifics of the threat, it remains under investigation.”

Sources said Nassau County police are now stationed at the lieutenant’s Long Island home.

The lieutenant, who is assigned to the 111th Precinct in Bayside, has been with the department since 2009, city records show.

“When we receive these threats, we can’t afford to say it’s nothing,” Police Benevolent Association president Pat Lynch said Tuesday. “We are urging all of our members to take these threats seriously and report them.”

The incident comes more than one month after highranking law-enforcement officials throughout the country reported that their personal information was hacked and posted online.

Police brass, including members of the NYPD, had their home addresses, e-mails and telephone numbers published amid anti-cop sentiment in the wake of the May 25 policecustody death of George Floyd.

It was unclear whether the lieutenant’s phone number was compromised in that instance.

Known as “doxxing,” the practice is legal, but critics argue that sharing the personal information exposes cops to danger.

Reports of police doxxing have come out of departments in Washington, Atlanta and Boston, in addition to the Big Apple.

Additional reporting by Tina Moore and Jorge FitzGibbon