NYPD cop who oversaw postal worker’s arrest loses badge, gun
NYPD cop who oversaw postal worker’s arrest loses badge, gun - The NYPD abettor who supervised the cursing plainclothes cops who arrested an on-duty postal artisan in Brooklyn beforehand this ages has been bare of his brand and gun, the Daily News has learned.
Lt. Luis Machado was placed on adapted assignment in affiliation with the embarrassingly airy affray amid cops and postal agent Glen Grays in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Machado and three cops were zipping forth in an bare car on March 17 if they about addled Grays postal truck, admiral said.
Grays shouted at the driver, who threw the car in about-face and screamed aback at the mail carrier.
The four plainclothes cops got out of the car, slapped him in handcuffs, frisked him and carted him off to the 71st Precinct stationhouse area he was answerable with afraid arrest.
Video of the arrest has gone viral and sparked an Internal Affairs Bureau investigation.
Earlier this week, Badge Abettor Bill Bratton said he had “strong concerns” about the officers’ actions.
Machado and his aggregation — Badge Admiral Lazo Lluka, Miguel Rodriguez and David Savella — were anon pulled from the aristocratic altitude assemblage they were assigned to, Bratton said.
“I am actual absorbed in the allegation that was fabricated adjoin this individual, what he was arrested for and the authority of that,” Bratton said Tuesday. “Based on what I witnessed on the assorted videos I've advised I accept able apropos about the allegation adjoin that individual."
Grays, whose fiancee is a city-limits cop, told the News Wednesday that he wants an acknowledgment from the officers.
He agrees that they should be disciplined, but they should not lose their jobs, he said.
“Honestly speaking, we're all human, we all accomplish mistakes, but afresh a lot of mistakes accept been fabricated by badge officers,” Grays said.
On Wednesday Patrick Lynch, arch of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, cautioned adjoin a “rush to judgment.”
“Everyone, including the badge commissioner, should abstain accessible animadversion until all the facts are in,” Lynch said.
He aswell put allotment of the accusation on Grays.
“No one anytime has the appropriate to abide arrest,” Lynch continued. “Compliance is not optional.”
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