A FDNY lieutenant who used a photo of Hitler as his Twitter profile is being sued by a woman he humiliated by tweeting a photo of her in a wheelchair with the phrase “Wide Load,” court documents state.
FDNY Emergency Medical Service Lt. Timothy Dluhos, 35 — who went by the name “Bad Lieutenant” online — took the embarrassing photo of Teena Gamzon, 65, and later added the insult before tweeting, her Brooklyn Supreme Court lawsuit claims.
“It was horrible,” Gamzon told The Post when the story broke in April. “I’m even embarrassed in front of my granddaughter. She’s 10 years old. She has to see her grandmother humiliated like that.”
The photo of Gamzon was published on the front page of The Post and also on the Daily Mail, Huffington Post, and Gothamist Web sites, the suit states.
Gamzon says publication of the photos caused her so much emotional pain, she was “confined to a bed and home for a period of time.”
Besides posting the photo of Gamzon, Dluhos tweeted a stream of slurs and called Mayor Bloomberg “King Jew.”
Dluhos later resigned from the FDNY after The Post reported on his hateful rants. He still works for Richmond County Ambulance, a private company, according to sources.
The suit also names the FDNY, claiming the city’s negligence “was the proximate cause of the ongoing and continuous publication of photographs ridiculing sick and infirmed persons.”
The Post also exposed the racist and anti-Semitic tweets posted by Fire Commissioner Sal Cassano’s own EMT son, Joseph Cassano, who quit the next day.