The viral video that shows an Uber driver being jaw-jacked by a New York City police officer has now led to the officer being demoted and stripped of his badge and gun. The YouTube video shows Detective Patrick Cherry yelling in the face of the driver as his passenger taped the incident. Apparently, the driver honked at Cherry, which set off the Joint Terrorism Task Force officer.
“No good cop should watch that video without a wince,” Commissioner Bill Bratton said at a press conference. “Because all good cops know that officer just made their jobs a little bit harder. In that kind of encounter, anger like that is unacceptable. In any encounter, discourtesy and obscene language like that is unacceptable.”
Currently, Cherry is on desk duty and will soon be transferred out of the Task Force with the possibility of a mark being placed on his record.
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