Warning: Police officer’s language may be considered offensive.

Officer Matthew Zagursky, 32, has been placed on administrative duty pending an internal affairs investigation of the video, which was first posted to Facebook.  Zagursky is a nine-year veteran of the Philadelphia Police Department.

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First, Zagursky is heard asking the driver for $30 to a fundraiser for police and firefighter families, threatening to otherwise take his car for lack of registration.

After the money is handed over, Zagursky makes a homophobic comment the car’s pink windshield wipers, which the driver says are in honor of his grandmother, a breast-cancer survivor.

According to this website, the driver was within his rights to record the encounter: "Conversations with police in the course of their duties are not private conversations."

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