The video, originally posted by a Twitter user and retweeted Thursday night by the NYPD's Detectives Endowment Association, shows male and female police officers standing next to a black man on the sidewalk. shows a man talking to a man E-bike in Williamsburg around 10:30pm. Wednesday.
A neighborhood coordinator stopped the man in front of 160 Metropolitan He Avenue near Berry Street as he was "driving an electric bicycle on the sidewalk," police said.
Another man, apparently the photographer, stepped in and lashed out at the officers.
During the offensive clip, the hateful man filming the exchange repeatedly called the male police officer he was the N-word.
"This fucking little lame dude, twenty years old," he said. "You're nobody, my n-a."
I punched a female cop and vomited. - ass n—a d–k, you Puerto Rican fake b—h.
The officers remained surprisingly calm during the confrontation. A male police officer was seen telling a man with a moped that he was ordered to cycle on the pavement.
"Ride or walk?" the man asked repeatedly, but no one answered.
The growling filmmaker added, "When the battery dies, when you quit your job?"
Towards the end of the clip, the officer walks away to the patrol car and the cameraman shouts, "You're not a man, son!"
"Take off your fucking king's vest and throw it." Lay your bag aside, my n—a, and Face off against the real n—a. You are not real, my n-a!
The NYPD said "police officers have resumed patrols" after issuing subpoenas to moped riders.
The union condemned and tweeted the disturbing video.
“Don't surprise anyone. Don't let them meet you," the union was furious. "New Yorkers are watching and living in fear."
The original poster read, "Why would anyone still want to be a cop?" was
