Former undercover NYPD detective John Olsen is suing the City of New York and a handful of NYPD bosses over race and military service discrimination.
Just a couple of months on the job, Olsen was reportedly surrounded by suspects, punched in the face and threatened that his life would end during a Harlem drug buy. A car full of detectives allegedly watched the scene but did not intervene, according to the suit.
The 34-year-old Marine veteran said in court papers that fellow detectives did not want to"ghost" him that day and risk"being tainted by association with a White undercover.""Sorry kid, I'm not doing anything this isn't 1992," the case detective told Olsen after the first assault, the suit claims. The dealer selling crack returned to Olsen after getting the drugs from a stash location and attempted to get Olsen to smoke the substance to prove he was not a cop, according to the allegations. Olsen tried to talk his way out of the situation, according to the suit, before the dealer"My life was in danger and I know that no one is coming to save me because of that last time, so I had to do what I had to do," Olsen said, according to the New York Post.
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