http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/11/08/2009-11-08_i_was_dissed_too_says_victim_at_cop_standoff.html

As black, white cops bickered over bias crime, victim sez she was insulted, too

BY John Marzulli
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Sunday, November 8th 2009, 4:00 AM

Black detectives who got into a tense confrontation with white cops while investigating a bias crime aren't the only ones who say they were disrespected.

The black crime victim has come forward to say she was mistreated, as well, by a uniformed officer from the 61st Precinct in Gravesend.

[highlight]Shalon Gardner said she told an officer a witness saw a gang of Jewish kids use a racial epithet when they shot out her car windows with a BB gun on July 16.

"Even if I found the witness, he wouldn't come forward because the rabbi will excommunicate him," the cop said, she told the Daily News. [/highlight]

"He was nasty and rude, like he didn't even care," said Gardner, who works in a Gravesend bank and volunteers as an auxiliary cop in East Flatbush.

Gardner was so upset by the cop's brushoff that she later called NYPD Internal Affairs to lodge a complaint.

The precinct's integrity officer contacted her two weeks ago and said her complaint had been "substantiated and the officers disciplined," she said.

Gardner tried unsuccessfully to get a copy of the complaint the officer took.

The Daily News obtained a copy of the police report and it contains no mention of a witness claiming the perpetrators shouted ,"f------ n------ shouldn't park here."

The case is marked "closed" and the report states the windows were smashed "by unknown means."

NYPD spokesman Paul Browne did not respond to a request for comment.

After Internal Affairs learned the vandalism may have been racially motivated, the Hate Crimes Task Force launched an investigation.

[highlight]But when three detectives - two black, one Pakistani - canvassed the area, a member of a local Jewish community patrol allegedly called the precinct and complained they were impersonators.

The detectives say uniformed cops who responded treated them more like criminals than comrades - demanding identification. The NYPD is probing the faceoff, in which a sergeant and a detective had to be physically restrained.[/highlight]