NYC Off-Duty Officer Pulls Gun on Bike Messenger

An off-duty officer accused of pointing his gun at deliverymen on bicycles in Greenwich Village Monday.

The men say the confrontation started over the cop's car mirror, but the police are telling a very different story.

Still, the intense scene led to a school being put on lockdown.

"How are you going to pull a gun out in the middle of the street?" a bike messenger says in the video.

This is the heated and frightening exchange happened on Greenwich Avenue Monday afternoon as a motorist pulled his weapon in what appears to be a case of road rage.

The driver claims the messenger on bike smacked his window.

The biker's friends tell Eyewitness News the sergeant swerved into their space.

Everyone stopped and the confrontation began.

"You going to shoot him? He has no weapon," the man's friend said.

Thankfully no shots were fired. More officers and nearby firefighters arrived. The biker's friends say the sergeant never produced a badge.

"He did not even say he was a cop. Literally got out of car with his weapon drawn," a biker said.

"We kept asking him, identify yourself. He just wouldn't," another friend of the biker's said.

As word spread through the village that there was a gunman on the loose, a nearby elementary school was put on temporary lockdown instead of regular dismissal.

Eventually, the sergeant was allowed to drive away while the biker was arrested.

Officials claim he had an 8-inch ice pick which he used to lunge at the sergeant, except no such weapon was found.

http://abc7ny.com/news/exclusive-off-duty-officer-accused-of-pullin...

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Permalink Reply by V W on June 14, 2016 at 5:31am
That's awful. Of course the cops will blame the victim like always and go out of their way to cover for their buddy.
Permalink Reply by Yasmeen on June 14, 2016 at 8:54am

This reminds me of what happened in Chicago - off-duty cop nearly hits cyclist, cyclist bangs on car to let him know he is there, off-duty cop cuffs cyclist and has him arrested.

http://www.thechainlink.org/forum/topics/car-starts-to-weave-into-y...

Permalink Reply by Rich S on June 15, 2016 at 7:02am

Several people gave me crap for not pursuing it when an off duty cop pointed a taser at me for not riding in a bike lane that was being blocked by a semi-truck. I'm born and raised in Chicago and have witnessed first hand on numerous occasions what CPD is capable of. This is a good example of why I made the decision I made.

Permalink Reply by David Barish on June 15, 2016 at 7:51am

You were wise. You will never win the encounter and can often lose even  if you doing the right thing. You want to survive the encounter and then you can decide whether to take action later or whether to count your blessings and move  on. 

Permalink Reply by Paul Lazzaro on June 15, 2016 at 1:51pm

You were smart.  Many good cops, but some really evil.  You need to live to fight another day.

Permalink Reply by Andrew Bedno on June 15, 2016 at 9:01am

Not a single anti-bike rant in the comments.  Apparently cops are even more loathed than cyclists in NYC.

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