This video of a citizen-police traffic-stop encounter is 'bad all around'


After viewing video of a police officer apparently shaking down a driver to buy charity tickets, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said, "No part of that video is good… It's just bad all around." (Source: Philly.com)

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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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