Plainclothes officers in trouble - didn't recognize off-duty chief
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At least one cop has been disciplined for ordering the NYPD's highest-ranking uniformed black officer out of his auto while the three-star chief was off-duty and parked in Queens, the Daily News has learned.
"How you can not know or recognize a chief in a department SUV with ID around his neck, I don't know," a police source said.
One officer walked up on each side of the SUV at 57th Ave. and Xenia St. in Corona about 7 p.m. and told the driver to roll down the heavily tinted windows, sources said.
What happened next is in dispute.
In his briefing to Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, Zeigler said the two cops, who are white, had no legitimate reason to approach his SUV, ranking sources said.
After they ordered him to get out, one officer did not believe the NYPD identification Zeigler gave him.
The cops gave a different account:
"How you can not know or recognize a chief in a department SUV with ID around his neck, I don't know," a police source said.
One officer walked up on each side of the SUV at 57th Ave. and Xenia St. in Corona about 7 p.m. and told the driver to roll down the heavily tinted windows, sources said.
What happened next is in dispute.
In his briefing to Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, Zeigler said the two cops, who are white, had no legitimate reason to approach his SUV, ranking sources said.
After they ordered him to get out, one officer did not believe the NYPD identification Zeigler gave him.
The cops gave a different account:
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Our Sherif is also an African American in Indianapolis. One of the four highest paid government Officials in the country, and the man who was formerly in charge of the Federal Witness Protection Program. He was stopped by policemen in a known speed trap area called homecroft. They didn't know who he was and by the end of his conversation with them they nearly lost their badge as they'd even overstepped their jurisdiction as they were strictly township officers and he had jurisdiction over the entire county and surrounding townships and they were over the township line. How people can be so prejudiced they can't recognize a city car and thier own departements identification is beyond me. I buy the superior officer on this one. They hassled him, and had no just cause for it. They continued despite his clearly identifying himself as an officer. Its dispicable.
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I hope more people can see the increase of police overstepping their bounds almost everywhere. The amount of inequity is alarming to say the least.
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