NYPD Det. Picked Up Ranting on FB as a Hobby and Hits the Mayors Wife with Rants
Det. Gregory Gordon is third from L at Center Commissioner Bill Bratton
This officer has forgotten way back at the academy that a cop is always a cop. He cannot take off what he is and what he represents which is the police Dept of this City and even the City itself as it stands for law and order. In this case we will highlight order! He has call many women many names including Hillary Clinton but this case he forgot that the mayor is his boss’s boss making him his boss also and he wont be please when you start calling his wife names.
Ranting seems to run in the family.
The sister of a NYPD detective who posted racist Facebook messages came to his defense via the same social media network that got the officer in trouble.
Detective Gregory Gordon’s conduct is currently under review by the NYPD after the Daily News first reported he had - among other things - called Mayor de Blasio’s wife Chirlane McCray a “former crack addict.”
“What’s sad is ‘he’ spoke the truth on his private forum and some sad individual is trying to bring a good cop down,” Marissa Carbonara wrote on the Staten Island Advance’s Facebook page Thursday night. “Don’t people have anything better to do?!” Carbonara also insisted Gordon, 33, was just exercising his First Ammendment rights and making “factual statements.”
When another Facebook user called the person who informed The News of the posts a “lurking rat,” Carbonara agreed and described the person as a “trolling c---.”
At her home on Friday, a woman denied knowing Carbonara - but seemed well aware of the ongoing Facebook controversy.
“You should be ashamed of yourself for all the dirty media you put in your paper. These people protect your rights,” she said. A former high-ranking police official said Gordon clearly crossed the line when posting those comments.
“It shows issues of judgment,” he said. “Being a police officer, you walk a very thin line. You are supposed to be above that. If you sink to that level, you are demeaning the department standards you have sworn to uphold.”
In August 2014, Gordon griped about a woman who told a TV reporter it was hard growing up black.
“Are you f------ kidding me? Stop acting like anyone owes you anything. Slavery ended 149 years ago,” he wrote. The NYPD quickly distanced itself from the comments Thursday.
Department policy advises cops to “exercise good judgment and demonstrate the same level of professionalism expected of them while performing their official duties.”
And Gordon’s Facebook page, which had been set to private, was deactivated Thursday afternoon after The News called him for comment.
In a statement Friday night, Michael Palladino, President of the Detectives’ Endowment Association, said he understands that “some may be offended by (Gordon’s) remarks.”
“Cops have become the targets of intentional violence which makes their job even harder and solves nothing but to perpetuate hate.
“If the press were to scrutinize the Facebook pages of the anti-cop hate groups they would find comments much worse and more inflammatory but that never appears in the news.”
An NYPD cop from Staten Island is under review after posting racist diatribes on social media including one that called Mayor de Blasio’s wife a “former crack addict,” sources said.
Detective Gregory Gordon, who works at the 121st Precinct, is under fire after making a series of racist and anti-Muslim remarks on Facebook, according to law enforcement sources.
In one screed from Nov. 2014, Gordon was furious about a story reported by The Post that said the city’s first lady Chirlane McCray did not trust NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton.
“Who cares what this former crack addict says!” Gordon wrote, according to a source.
McCray vehemently denied that she made the remarks.
Gordon, who has removed the entire Facebook page from the Internet, is being looked at by the NYPD who has told cops to “exercise good judgement” when using social media.
“The comments made by Gregory Gordon do not in any way represent the views of the New York City Police Department,” read a statement from the NYPD.
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