Cop Threatens To Send Latino Family ‘Back To The F**king Border’
*An online petition has been organized to remove officer Roy Bordamonte from the Passaic PD. So far, the petition has 2000 signature. VL
By Hilary Hanson, Huffington Post Latino Voices
Footage in which a police officer in Passaic, New Jersey can be heard threatening a Latino couple has incited hundreds of community members to demand his dismissal from the force.
Sgt. Roy Bordamonte’s voice was caught on cell phone video cursing and shouting at Jazmin Vidal and her boyfriend while they sat on their porch, The Record reports.
[pullquote]The Passaic police department has not replied to a request for comment …. but Passaic Mayor Alex Blanco released a statement urging residents to stay calm while the city investigates the matter.[/pullquote]Vidal told NBC New York that the officer drove up and started talking to them, and became incensed after they asked him to get out of his vehicle.
In the footage, which started gaining attention online this month, the cell phone camera is trained on Vidal and her boyfriend, and the police officer’s voice and radio can be heard in the background.
“You go to school?” Bordamonte says. “What school? What are you, fucking special ed? You fucking idiot. You might be an idiot because you mouthed off. That’s why you’re going to get this ticket.”
He then starts threatening to have the man’s family deported:
I’m going to knock on your door and I’m going to check your mom and dad’s ID, and all your fucking cousins, and when they give me that bullshit fucking name, I’m gonna have immigration pick everybody up so they can go back to the fucking border in Puebla or where the …
This article was originally published in Huffington Post Latino Voices.
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