Passengers on a New York City subway car confronted an off-duty police officer who allegedly assaulted an on-duty subway employee before fleeing the scene, according to the New York Daily News.
New York City police officer Mirjan Lolja allegedly tackled and choked a 28-year-old female subway worker at a Bronx subway station at about 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 23, the Daily News reported last week.
In an article on Sunday, the News reported that the attack only stopped when a train pulled into the station. The off-duty cop then tried to jump into the train to get away, but the passengers chased him off, according to the newspaper.
The victim pleaded to her fellow worker on the train to keep it in place until her assailant ran off the car and out of the station.
“I believe the only thing that saved me was the train coming into the station,” the conductor, who has remained anonymous, told the paper.
The cop turned himself in on Friday, according to the paper.
“I’m totally outraged,” the chairman of Transport Workers Union Local 100 told the Daily News. “We’re not safe with members of the public, and now we’re not safe from the police.”
Watch the video of Lolja allegedly fleeing, via WNBC:
This kind of stuff will just keep happening, folks. The cops simply don’t give a fuck. They know they can get away with it and they are rubbing that fact in our faces.
We are not a free country anymore.
FirsT DeBlasio. Now THE chairman of Transport WORkers UNion Local 100 disREspects PoliCE? TheY haVE a HArd JOB pUTTIng Their livES on THE LINE every DAY!1!11!!!one!11!1!!!
Yup… and to all the white people out there who defend this behavior, soon enough they’ll become emboldened enough to beat or choke anyone, no matter the color of their skin.
How dare the subway riders disrespect this heroic police officer. De Blasio has more blood on his hands.
Did just the dirty cop run away or did all the guys with guns run too?