{"id":225354,"date":"2026-05-09T00:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T00:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/225354\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T00:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T00:50:17","slug":"greenpoint-police-captain-transferred-to-the-bronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/225354\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpoint police captain transferred to the Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GREENPOINT \u2014 A NEW YORK POLICE DEPARTMENT captain was transferred to a less desirable position on Tuesday, after a video began circulating on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DX7PQnruu4M\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Instagram account<\/a>, @untilfreedom, depicting him calling Mayor Zohran Mamdani \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/05\/nyregion\/james-wilson-nypd-mamdani-democrats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">expendable<\/a>,\u201d \u201cnot my boss,\u201d and \u201can embarrassment and total nonsense,\u201d according to The New York Times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The captain, James G. Wilson, 51, commanding officer of the 94th Precinct, made the remarks while on duty near a Bushwick hospital where a crowd had gathered to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who had brought a detainee there following a confrontational arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The comments violated the Police Department\u2019s ban on expressing political opinions about a political party while on duty, according to the Times.\u00a0 Wilson was moved to the department\u2019s communications division in the Bronx while a disciplinary process moves forward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREENPOINT \u2014 A NEW YORK POLICE DEPARTMENT captain was transferred to a less desirable position on Tuesday, after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[3302,128,9,24,15662,63,129,131,130,45613,82],"class_list":["post-225354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-breaking","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-police-department-nypd","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-ice","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225354","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=225354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}