Police sources were quick to point out that Cherry could have just been having a bad day. However, police Commissioner William Bratton told reporters that the anger Cherry displayed was 'unacceptable' and that Cherry had been re-assigned to a desk job.

Sources also said that the incident will be examined by the Civilian Complaint Review Board after the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau determined that Cherry was guilty of no offense other than being 'discourteous.'

Cherry was traveling to work in a private vehicle after visiting another detective at NYU Langone Medical Center who had recently suffered an off-duty heart attack. Patrick Cherry, a member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force. The reaction: Police sources told the New York Daily News that the officer in the video is Det. From the unnecessary door-slam to the baseless arrest threats, the officer certainly looks like he is using his institutional power to intimidate a civilian over a minor traffic ticket. This kind of diatribe is uncomfortable enough to watch, but imagine how terrifying it must have been to actually experience. That's the only reason that's not happening, because this isn't important enough for me. The only reason you're not in handcuffs going to jail and getting summonses in the precinct is because I have things to do. When the driver attempts to apologize, the officer angrily continues on a xenophobic rant: 'How long have you been in this country? Almost how long? Two years? I got news for you and use this lesson, remember this in the future, don't ever do that again.

Pull over.' At times, the officer appears to mock the driver's accent. 'Do you understand me? I don't know what fucking planet think you're on right now,' the officer says in the video before slamming the car's door.

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