NYPD cops are getting the anti-ICE treatment.
Cops walking the beat are being harassed by agitators who film the exchanges and then post the videos to Facebook, where they doxx New York’s Finest with their names and complaint records.
“I know you don’t got no lives out of here,” a user who goes by the name Stitch the Camera Guy says in one Feb. 1 clip, as he taunts two cops at the West 181st Street No. 1 subway station in Washington Heights.
“Nobody loves you because of the piece of s–ts you all are…. Scumbags, you hear. Just f–king scumbags. Dirty little rats.”
The video shows each officer’s name, photo and information about complaints and lawsuits filed against them.
In other clips he confronts cops at random inside station houses, in their patrol cars or on the street, recording as he spews profanities and taunts them.
“I hope you burn out here,” he tells an officer in a Dec. 10 video. “You were supposed to burn in hell a long time ago.”
Sometimes he tells cops he can say whatever he wants without any repercussions since he’s protected by the First Amendment.
“You going to have to listen to the judge if you arrest me, motherf–ker,” he tells another officer in a Dec. 21 post, before threatening the cop with a lawsuit if he’s arrested.
Similar videos have been posted social media in the past, but revealing the cops’ records and full names to the videos appears to be new and mirror tactics employed by anti-ICE activists across the country.
One effort called ICE List is a national doxxing project that appeared online in June 2025 and publicly identifies hundreds of federal immigration staffers, revealing their personal information, such as contact numbers, license plates and photos. It contained more than 4,500 names as of last month.
Some of the users posting videos of NYPD officers cite First Amendment protection, but that has some cops crying foul.
“I don’t think the First amendment gives you the right to harass police officers and thwart them from doing their job,” a law enforcement source said. “I don’t think if you show this to any right minded person that they’re going to think this is O.K.”
Some of the videos feature advertisements, meaning users are “getting money from this,” the source fumed.
A poster who calls himself “iamgodny” on Facebook uses similar tactics to taunt cops.
On Feb. 7, he posted close up videos of police officers around NYC, with screen grabs from their complaint records.
The disrespect comes from the top, the law enforcement source said.
“People take their lead from City Hall,” the police source said. “They’re definitely more apt to act out during an administration that is sympathetic to them versus a law and order administration.”
A police officer with more than 20 years on the job called the videos “absolutely disgusting.”
“The department doesn’t want you to take any type of action,” the senior officer said. “They’re just coming up to you randomly. Who should be subjected to that?”
The Detectives Endowment Association wants state law changed so the public is required to stay at least 25 feet away from officers as they work — a measure similar to legislation already on the books in Florida — and prohibits them from including the officers’ addresses.
“Florida’s Halo Law makes it clear they stand with police – not those who harass them,” said Scott Munro, the union’s president. “It’s time New York does the same if we want to stop losing detectives and officers to states that value our men and women in blue.”
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