Police ABUSED an Uber Driver in New York City

Smile, NYPD Officers, You're Being Recorded
A cop taunts, intimidates, and disrespects an immigrant Uber driver—and is caught and punished because a passenger captured it all on video.

By Conor Friedersdorf

Years ago, if someone told you a story about an NYPD officer lambasting a taxi driver, it was easy to imagine that the encounter wasn't actually all that egregious. Sure, maybe the cop overreacted, but you weren't there, so who knows what really happened? The person telling you the story could be exaggerating. And maybe in your experience cops don't verbally berate people for nothing. If you're not poor, or an immigrant, or a member of a minority group, you may go your whole life without witnessing an abusive police officer.

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