two New York City Police officers are investigating after a video surfaced of a rider purportedly asking him to wear a mask from a metro platform on Tuesday morning.
Andrew Gilbert says he was on his way to work when he saw unmasked officers patrolling 8th Street station in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.
He began filming police in compliance with regulations from the New York Police Department and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the city’s trains and buses, and asked them to wear masks.
‘The male officer was playing dumb and claimed he couldn’t hear me. I kept asking him over and over, “Did you know it’s illegal not to wear a mask?” Gilbert told AM New York Metro.
‘I kept asking them the same thing and then they said, “You’re being disruptive,” which I think is their key word for whatever they want to do if they declare you disruptive.’
A spokesman for the NYPD told DailyMail.com that the two officers involved in Tuesday’s attack are being reviewed internally. He declined to be identified, citing his ‘right to due process’, but said he believes officers are required to wear masks on the train.
Two masked NYPD officers chase a masked rider off a subway platform on Tuesday morning
The rider, Andrew Gilbert, said he had asked police to put on their masks.
Officers were then seen pushing him out of Greenwich Village’s 8th Street station
A 35-second video posted to Instagram shows a male officer pushing Gilbert off the stage with both hands Twitter Just before 9 a.m. Tuesday.
Gilbert is heard making vague statements about the speed of trains during the rush hour of the morning.
The male officer manages to pin Gilbert against the emergency exit, at which point a female officer opens the door to get him out.
The male officer says, ‘You are being disruptive.’
It is not clear what Gilbert was saying, although he was later heard asking for the officers’ badge numbers from the other side of the door.
Meanwhile, the two officers lean against the platform wall and ignore him.
Gilbert later said: ‘He just walked into me, grabbed me and pushed me.
The officers then leaned against a wall and ignored Gilbert’s pleas for their badge numbers.
Police say the two officers involved, a man and a woman, are now undergoing an internal review.
‘He grabbed me by the shirt and pushed me to the emergency exit and slammed me through it, and was yelling at me, “If you’re not going to ride the train you can get out.”
MTA Is necessary Whether while riding a train or bus or waiting for someone at an indoor station, everyone has been vaccinated. Those not wearing one are fined up to $50.
The transport authority declined to comment on the behavior of the officials on Tuesday.
“I can’t say enough about the way the NYPD addresses its officers when they are found to be violating the rules,” spokesman Tim Minton told AM New York Metro.
‘We anticipate that anyone who is in public transportation will wear a mask to protect themselves, fellow New Yorkers and transit workers.’
Officers were regularly photographed and filmed in the subway without wearing masks.
In July, a transit officer in the city urged the police to wear masks in the metro.
Sarah Meyer, chief customer officer for New York City Transit, told the MTA committee on July 19, “We will continue to work with our partners and our friends from the MTA PD, NYPD and other enforcement agencies to wear their masks in the system. . ” meeting.
‘From my point of view, nothing is more important than seeing this happen.’
On top of that, NYPD officers are one of the most vaccine-hesitant groups in city government, even though more than 60 of the city’s cops have died of COVID-19 since the pandemic began.
According to the most recent data released and reported by the mayor’s office, about 68 percent of NYPD employees have received at least one dose of the vaccine. patch.com.
That’s less than the citywide rate of 85 percent of adults receiving a single dose, according to the city. health data.
This is well below even more vaccinated city workers such as the mayor’s office and education departments (95 percent) and city hospitals (93 percent).
Gilbert says he regularly talks to officers about not wearing masks.
“Eighty percent of the time they make up a lame excuse or wear a mask,” he said.
COVID-19 is coming down after the Delta version surged late in the summer
New York City had 1,075 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the week ended October 15, down from a summer high of 1,976 in the week ended August 19.
‘I really wish we had a police department dedicated to public safety…they can do whatever they want and have no accountability for it.
In July, NYPD spokesman Sergeant Edward Riley said: ‘We expect our officers to comply with the requirement that masks are worn on trains and in the transit system.
‘When it comes to the public, we continue to provide masks to any riders in need.’
Mask compliance remains high, with 90 per cent of Metro riders covering their faces in the 10-day period ending October 1. MTA Statistics.
Compliance has increased at the 86 percent rate seen in the week of June 28, when COVID-19 cases were on the rise in the delta version. This is still down from the 98 percent rate seen from February to mid-May.
According to city figures, cases, hospitalizations and deaths are declining.
There were 1,075 confirmed cases in the week ending October 15, down from the summer’s high of 1,976 in the week ended August 19.
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