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By Adolfo Flores
September 29, 2015
A police officer in New Jersey has come under fire after video footage of him threatening to deport a Latino man’s family was posted on YouTube.
The
video — recorded in February but posted on YouTube this month —
captures the voice of Passaic, New Jersey, police Sgt. Roy Bordamonte.
Jasmine Vidal, who recorded
the encounter, told NBC New York she was sitting on a porch with her
boyfriend and a friend when Bordamonte drove up to them in a squad car
and engaged them in conversation.
Bordamonte,
Vidal said, got angry and threatened to deport the family of one of the
men after he told the officer to get out of the car.
“I’m
going to knock on your door and check your mom and dad’s ID and all
your fucking cousins, everybody,” Bordamonte says in the video. “And
when they give me that fucking
name I’m going to have immigration pick everyone up so they could cross
back to the fucking border or pueblo or wherever the fuck you came from
— and all that hard work that came through to come to America, you
fucked it up.”
The
video prompted protests outside Passaic City Hall last week, and a
change.org petition calling for Bordamonte’s removal has more than 2,400
signatures.
At another point in the video, Bordamonte asks why one of the men isn’t smiling any longer.
“Will
I see that smile when I drag your mom and dad back to the fucking
border?” Bordamonte says. “I’ll make this fucking like Texas bro, or
fucking I don’t know where
the fuck. Arizona?”
It’s
unclear why Bordamonte initiated contact with the trio on the porch,
but it appears as though one of the men taunted Bordamonte.
“You
said, ‘Get out the fuckin’ car and you’ll find out,’ Well I’m here,”
Bordamonte is recorded as saying. “Come on let’s go. That’s why you were
talking shit before
right? Come on.”
The Passaic Police Department did not immediately return calls for comment.
Northjersey.com
reported that Bordamonte was removed as the head of the department’s
bias crimes unit — which investigates racially motivated crimes — after
the video
took off online. He remains supervisor of the Quality of Life unit, a
patrol that walks the city’s high-crime areas, but is not allowed to
leave his desk job.
Acting Police Chief Rosario Capuana told Northjersey.com that Bordamonte admitted that it was his voice in the video.
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