{"id":140958,"date":"2026-02-21T13:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140958\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T13:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:24:07","slug":"nyc-cops-harassed-doxxed-by-social-media-agitators-prompt-calls-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140958\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC cops harassed, doxxed by social media agitators prompt calls for change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYPD cops are getting the anti-ICE treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cops walking the beat are being harassed by agitators who film the exchanges and then post the videos to Facebook, where they doxx New York\u2019s Finest with their names and complaint records.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know you don\u2019t got no lives out of here,\u201d a user who goes by the name Stitch the Camera Guy says in one Feb. 1 clip, as he taunts two cops at the West 181st Street No. 1 subway station\u00a0in Washington Heights.<\/p>\n<p>Social media users have been doxxing cops by posting footage of them online that includes their names, precincts and complaint records.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody loves you because of the piece of s\u2013ts you all are\u2026. Scumbags, you hear. Just f\u2013king scumbags. Dirty little rats.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The video shows each officer\u2019s name, photo and information about complaints and lawsuits filed against them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In other clips he confronts cops at random inside station houses, in their patrol cars or on the street, recording as he spews profanities and taunts them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope you burn out here,\u201d he tells an officer in a Dec. 10 video. \u201cYou were supposed to burn in hell a long time ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes he tells cops he can say whatever he wants without any repercussions since he\u2019s protected by the First Amendment. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou going to have to listen to the judge if you arrest me, motherf\u2013ker,\u201d he tells another officer in a Dec. 21 post, before threatening the cop with a lawsuit if he\u2019s arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The social media user walks up to cops who are in the streets, subways and in their cars. Stitch The Camera Guy\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the social media users harrang the cops and use foul language.  iamgodny\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/02\/cop-taunting-rapper-famous-richard-still-posting-tiktok-jabs-at-nypd\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Similar videos have been  posted <\/a>social media in the past, but revealing the cops\u2019 records and full names to the videos appears to be new and mirror tactics employed by anti-ICE activists across the country. <\/p>\n<p>One effort called ICE List is a national doxxing project that appeared online in June 2025 and publicly identifies hundreds of federal immigration staffers, revealing their personal information, such as contact numbers, license plates and photos. It contained more than 4,500 names as of last month.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the users posting videos of NYPD officers cite First Amendment protection, but that has some cops crying foul.<\/p>\n<p>Long Island has seen the same behavior from social media users who confront cops and post videos. mrbambrickraps\/TikTok<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the agitators record cops who are doing nothing more than standing outside their precinct stationhouse. Stitch The Camera Guy\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think the First amendment gives you the right to harass police officers and thwart them from doing their job,\u201d a law enforcement source said. \u201cI don\u2019t think if you show this to any right minded person that they\u2019re going to think this is O.K.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some of the videos feature advertisements, meaning users are \u201cgetting money from this,\u201d the source fumed.<\/p>\n<p>A poster who calls himself \u201ciamgodny\u201d on Facebook uses similar tactics to taunt cops.<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 7, he posted close up videos of police officers around NYC, with screen grabs from their complaint records.<\/p>\n<p>The disrespect comes from the top, the law enforcement source said.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives Endowment Association President Scott Munro is backing a bill to make it more difficult to harass police officers. Helayne Seidman<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople take their lead from City Hall,\u201d the police source said. \u201cThey\u2019re definitely more apt to act out during an administration that is sympathetic to them versus a law and order administration.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A police officer with more than 20 years on the job called the videos \u201cabsolutely disgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe department doesn\u2019t want you to take any type of action,\u201d the senior officer said. \u201cThey\u2019re just coming up to you randomly. Who should be subjected to that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/05\/us-news\/nyc-cops-would-flee-the-job-if-mandami-wins-union-leaders\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detectives Endowment Association wants state law changed<\/a> so the public is required to stay at least 25 feet away from officers as they work \u2014 a measure similar to legislation already on the books in Florida \u2014 and prohibits them from including the officers\u2019 addresses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlorida\u2019s Halo Law makes it clear they stand with police \u2013 not those who harass them,\u201d said Scott Munro, the union\u2019s president. \u201cIt\u2019s time New York does the same if we want to stop losing detectives and officers to states that value our men and women in blue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYPD cops are getting the anti-ICE treatment.\u00a0 Cops walking the beat are being harassed by agitators who film&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4660,22958,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,241,58],"class_list":["post-140958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-first-amendment","tag-harassment","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nypd","tag-police-officers","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}