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Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by Punk.of.Ages
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If you read the article the officer is not ever made the statement about the arrest, nor is it HIM or any other office stating that the anti-semetic remarks were made. The NY Post reporter is the one that found the "witnesses" statements.
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View: RUFF RIDER 'CURSED' COP HASIDIC OFFICER IN SUBWAY CANINE FRACAS
Source: Nypost
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RUFF RIDER 'CURSED' COPHASIDIC OFFICER IN SUBWAY CANINE FRACAS
RUFF RIDER 'CURSED' COP
HASIDIC OFFICER IN SUBWAY CANINE FRACAS
By REUVEN FENTON and REUVEN BLAU
Last updated: 9:06 am
July 1, 2009
Posted: 2:42 am
July 1, 2009
The city's first Hasidic cop was excoriated in a anti-Semitic rant by a dog-loving subway passenger who allegedly refused to place her sick pet in an animal carrier, sources and a witness said yesterday.
Brooklyn blogger Chrissie Brodigan claimed Officer Joel Witriol went ballistic when he saw her take her pug, Dempsey, out of her purse in violation of subway regulations at around 5:30 p.m. Monday. She said he cuffed her, insulted her and roughed her up.
But a witness, Viane Delgado, said Brodigan was the one out of line. Delgado said Witriol "repeatedly" asked the woman to place the barking pug in a carrier she had. But instead, she allegedly insulted him with anti-Semitic slurs and tried to walk away.
"You f---ing Jew, you're not even human," Delgado quoted Brodigan as saying.
She repeatedly said, "Jewish people think they own everything," a source said.
But Brodigan denied that account.
"I don't remember saying anything anti-Semitic," she said. "I do remember saying, 'Clearly, you have trouble with women.' I probably called him an a--hole."
According to her account, Witriol "said he needed to talk to me" as she was ascending a staircase at the L-line Bedford Avenue station.
"He pushed me against the wall and said, 'I need your name and ID.' "
Brodigan, 32, said that when she told Witriol she had left her wallet at work, things turned ugly.
"He pushed me against the wall and said, 'If you're gonna act like a woman, I'm gonna treat you like a woman,' " said Brodigan.
The blogger denied she had a carrying case with her and said her dog suffers from a health condition that causes it to overheat.
She claims that when she started to walk away, "he handcuffed my wrist, pushed me against the wall, punched me in the back and kicked me in the shin."
She also claimed Witriol at one point put his hands on her breasts.
Melissa Randazzo, 29, another witness, backed up Brodigan's story.
"His tone was really alarming," Randazzo said of Witriol. "The girl looked scared. She didn't look like someone who would get into trouble. Something didn't seem right about this situation."
Witriol's family would not comment on the case last night.
The NYPD said that there's no record of any impropriety on the part of Witriol and that Brodigan was given a summons for failing to identify herself and for not having a dog in a proper container.
A police source said Brodigan was belligerent and argumentative.
Brodigan claimed the cop took away her pug and threatened he'd have it "put down."
reuven.fenton@nypost.com
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as far as dog owners go, telling a dog owner ANYTHING in NYC is about like telling them something about their child. It is generally met with vitriol, malice, and spite.
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Last edited by Cynthetiq; 07-10-2009 at 03:23 PM..
Reason: fixed typo
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