PHILADELPHIA: Cop Caught On Video Extorting Driver, Mocking His “Faggot-Ass” Windshield Wipers

Philly.com reports:

“Either you buy these or I take your car, ’cause it’s unregistered.” Officer Matthew Zagursky didn’t mince words Thursday when he flashed tickets to the Hero Thrill Show, a fundraiser that supports the families of fallen officers and firefighters, to two men after pulling them over. And yesterday, hours after a recording of that exchange went viral, Commissioner Charles Ramsey didn’t either. “No part of that video is good,” Ramsey said of the footage, which also shows Zagursky spouting homophobic slurs. “It’s just bad all the way around.” Ramsey said Zagursky, 32, has been pulled from North Philly’s 24th District and placed on administrative duty as the Internal Affairs Bureau investigates the video, posted to Facebook by a user named “Rob Stay Faded.” In the video, the driver gives Zagursky $30 for two tickets to the Hero Thrill Show, an annual fundraiser that pays the college tuition of the children of police officers and firefighters killed in the line of duty. After the money changes hands, the officer jokes with the driver, asking him about his “faggot ass wipers,” referring to the pink-tinted windshield wipers on his car. When the driver tells Zagursky they’re in solidarity with his grandmother, a breast-cancer survivor, the officer tells him he looks like “a fruitcake.”

Philadelphia police claim there is no “internal pressure” for officers to sell tickets to the benefit.