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Video: Dancing Cop Tells Street Vendor To "Blow Me"
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Ben Yakas
Published Oct 11, 2013
Modified Oct 11, 2013
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Street vendor harassment is nothing to laugh about—according to Sean Basinski, director of the Street Vendor Project, low-level abuse of vendors by NYPD officers is an unfortunate everyday occurrence. And there's nothing funny about vulgarity and disrespect...having said all that, the dancing, foul-mouthed female police officer in the video below is the exception to the rule.
She's the platonic ideal of a NYC cop, a throwback to a simpler time before camera phones, when every putz had the God-given right to perform a whirligig jig while instructing an interlocutor to "blow me, bitch."
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Ben Yakas is a former Gothamist reporter.
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