NYC I detective in Viral Uber Rant Video Apologizes...but loses his badge and position

[uppityperson]

1. Good god. What an ass. Um, yes, that is who you are, how you conduct yourself. ETA

"That's not who I am, that's not who I've been and that's not how I conducted myself as an officer in New York City," he added.

ETA another story. Glad they stripped him. I don't care if someone you know had a heart attack, this is inappropriate, as are the other dozen times you had complaints filed against you.

http://gothamist.com/2015/04/02/cherry_jammed_up.php

Since 2001, the CCRB has received over a dozen complaints regarding the NYPD detective who was recently caught on camera berating an Uber driver in an unhinged xenophobic rant. Detective Patrick Cherry, who was stripped of his badge and gun and placed on desk duty yesterday, appears to have some anger management issues; according to the NY Times, some of the prior complaints contained "similar allegations."

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Others feel the NYPD is coming down too heavy on Cherry. Michael J. Palladino, the president of the Detectives’ Endowment Association, says that before his fateful encounter with the Uber driver, Cherry had been visiting a fellow detective with the Joint Terrorism Task Force who is hospitalized following a heart attack....