A veteran NYPD officer pleading guilty to a civil- rights violation had a dramatic breakdown in court — accusing the department of corruption and saying he couldn’t take it anymore
Admir Kacamakovic, a seven-year vet, stunned onlookers in Brooklyn federal court when he said he was sickened by the NYPD and had contemplated suicide.
“I have been working with the most goddamned corrupt police department this world has ever known,” Kacamakovic told Judge William Kuntz II, a former member of the NYPD’s Civilian Complaint Review Board.
“I want to hand in this ID,” he said, waving what appeared to be a police identification card.
After a brief recess, Kacamakovic, 33, regained his composure and admitted without emotion that he deliberately violated a man’s civil rights by handcuffing him tightly and detaining him without cause after the man threatened to file a complaint against him.
The incident occurred in July 2008 outside his cousin’s bar in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, when the officer intervened in a parking dispute at the cousin’s behest.
Kacamakovic faces up to 10 years in prison when sentenced.
Kacamakovic and defense attorney Michael Rosen declined to elaborate on the corruption allegations after court.