The NYPD is searching for a crew of “idiots” who shut down the Kosciuszko Bridge — and snarled site visitors for miles — as aspect of a social media “stunt,” the city’s leading cop claimed Tuesday.
About a dozen males acquired out of their cars and trucks on the Brooklyn span all-around 6 p.m. on Nov. 14 to rap along to blaring music, all whilst filming by themselves, law enforcement mentioned.
Online video of the bridge shutdown shows traffic at a comprehensive standstill in the background.
“You know, sad to say, there’s no scarcity of idiots these times and blocking a bridge and the inconvenience and the likely danger it can trigger to me is reckless at the minimal,” Police Commissioner Dermot Shea reported Tuesday on NY1.
“And we’re leaning in direction of there’s heading to be an capacity to carry costs listed here but it is likely to consider some time.”
Shea said he options to perform with prosecutors to cost individuals in the movie. He also stated he thinks the social media platform where the online video is posted should just take it down. It was not quickly obvious which platform it was posted on.
“This is not some thing that is new, we’ve noticed this above time for yrs,” Shea ongoing. “They will prepare a stunt like this, they will put it up on social media, they will try to get notoriety for it and get followers for it.”
Shea also blasted the crew’s brazenness — as effectively as the state’s comfortable-on-criminal offense criminal justice procedure.
“How did we get to the stage wherever people experience that that’s suitable behavior and that they can get away with that?” he asked.
“And I assume that portion of the solution is simply because when we look at the folks who broke motor vehicle home windows in Queens last week and when you see the 1 particular person has a lot of, a lot of arrests. Section of the tale is that absolutely nothing comes about when you get arrested anymore.”
Mayor-elect Eric Adams commented about the bridge video on Twitter, contacting for all individuals associated to be held accountable to the “fullest extent of the legislation.”
“Incidents like this damage our model as a city, disrespect New Yorkers and endanger visitors and inhabitants alike,” Adams tweeted Sunday. “All people who participated in this reckless behavior should be discovered and held liable to the full extent of the law. We will not be a town of chaos.”
