A police officer in New Jersey has come under fire after video footage of him threatening to deport a Latino man's family was posted on YouTube.
The video — recorded in February but posted on YouTube this month — captures the voice of Passaic, New Jersey, police Sgt. Roy Bordamonte. Jasmine Vidal, who recorded the encounter, told NBC New York she was sitting on a porch with her boyfriend and a friend when Bordamonte drove up to them in a squad car and engaged them in conversation.
Bordamonte, Vidal said, got angry and threatened to deport the family of one of the men after he told the officer to get out of the car.
“I’m going to knock on your door and check your mom and dad’s ID and all your fucking cousins, everybody," Bordamonte says in the video. "And when they give me that fucking name I’m going to have immigration pick everyone up so they could cross back to the fucking border or pueblo or wherever the fuck you came from — and all that hard work that came through to come to America, you fucked it up.”
The video prompted protests outside Passaic City Hall last week, and a change.org petition calling for Bordamonte’s removal has more than 2,400 signatures.
At another point in the video, Bordamonte asks why one of the men isn’t smiling any longer.
“Will I see that smile when I drag your mom and dad back to the fucking border?” Bordamonte says. “I’ll make this fucking like Texas bro, or fucking I don’t know where the fuck. Arizona?”
It’s unclear why Bordamonte initiated contact with the trio on the porch, but it appears as though one of the men taunted Bordamonte.
“You said, 'Get out the fuckin' car and you’ll find out,' Well I’m here,” Bordamonte is recorded as saying. “Come on let's go. That's why you were talking shit before right? Come on.”
The Passaic Police Department did not immediately return calls for comment.
Northjersey.com reported that Bordamonte was removed as the head of the department’s bias crimes unit — which investigates racially motivated crimes — after the video took off online. He remains supervisor of the Quality of Life unit, a patrol that walks the city's high-crime areas, but is not allowed to leave his desk job.
Acting Police Chief Rosario Capuana told Northjersey.com that Bordamonte admitted that it was his voice in the video.
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