John D. Macari Jr. 🇺🇸🗽
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Founder & Host of New York’s Finest: Retired & Unfiltered Podcast #TheFinestUnfiltered, Retired NYPD Lieutenant. “I Take Some Getting Used To”
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What you’re watching is a lawful, justified use of force consistent with the NYPD Patrol Guide and the NYS Penal Code. The suspect on the ground is attempting to bite the officer. That by definition is an active assault. A bite isn’t minor it can cause serious injury, permanent disfigurement, and transmit disease. “Police work is a contact sport, It’s does not look pretty on camera” but not looking good does not mean unlawful or improper. The officer delivers closed fist strikes to the ribs, a trained and authorized tactic, to stop the bite and protect himself from injury. These were not punitive strikes. They were necessary, controlled, and directly tied to stopping an ongoing assault. As per NYPD Patrol Guide Procedure 221-01 (2)(D): Members of the service shall not use force on a restrained subject unless it is necessary to: • Prevent injury ✅ • Prevent escape ✅ • Overcome active resistance or assault✅ That’s exactly what happened here. Just so we are clear a handcuffed suspect does NOT get a free pass to assault a police officer. GOD Bless The NYPD
John D. Macari Jr. 🇺🇸🗽476,384 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад
NYPD Police Officer Grant Pulagrin is my pick for 2026’s “Cop of The Year” Let’s talk about the reality of what officers like Grant Pulagrin face each day using this video as an example. In the below video you witness Grant make a beautiful solo, open field tackle and apprehend a violent terrorist who just threw 2 IED’s a protest. In that moment, it was completely reasonable for him to believe the suspect could still be carrying another explosive. Despite that risk, Pulagrin takes the suspect to the ground, mounts him, and delivers strikes to gain compliance ending the threat and getting the terrorist into handcuffs. That’s policing, that’s courage and that’s what we pay, train and expect police officers to do. But here’s the unfortunate reality for NYPD cops in 2026: While every reasonable person knows this was a reasonable and justified use of force it’s important to understand that his actions on that day generated a use of force report, which generate an automatic notification to NYPD Internal Affairs and NYC’s Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) to investigate that use of force. Grant is now being investigated for his use of force by both the NYPD and the CCRB. Due to the media and public attention on this case it is reasonable to believe that those investigations will clear Grant’s use of force but regardless of the outcome, these self generated allegations remain on his record forever, in retirement and beyond. If the suspect or his attorney files additional complaints as a legal tactic, which also happens most of the time, those allegations also live on permanently. The mount of the terrorist is also a move that was outlawed by NYC’s Council as part of the diaphragm law, which outlawed not only chokeholds as but also outlawed putting pressure on the back or chest of suspect. Again because of the attention around this case it’s unlikely Manhattan DA would bring charges against Officer Pulagrin but the potential to do so is there. Now imagine this wasn’t a terrorist attack. No media headlines but the same exact scenario plays out and Grant reacts the same way and does just as an amazing job apprehending a fleeing violent suspect. In this scenario Grant more than likely receives a substantiated CCRB as a result of their “investigation” into his self generated allegations. This scenario would cause Grant to not receive qualified immunity and not be indemnified by NYC, meaning Grant would be held personally liable for damages from a lawsuit. Grant would also have his professional record marred for life and could face a possible criminal indictment, for doing HIS JOB ! So when the headlines fade, don’t forget what you saw. A police officer ran toward danger, took down a terrorist, and protected innocent people while knowing the system he works in may still come after him for doing his job. Next time you judge a cop based on their CCRB or lawsuit record remember that. GOD Bless Police Officer Grant Pulagrin ! GOD Bless The NYPD ! FYI Jessica S. Tisch hopefully it’s Detective Pulagrin sooner than later.
John D. Macari Jr. 🇺🇸🗽409,604 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад
In the NYPD we were taught that an omission of facts is the same as lying. Listen to NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch blatantly omit the fact that these two animals who robbed and stabbed an off-duty NYPD detective are both illegal migrants from the Dominican Republic. She then went on to state that one of the savages, Sneider Mejia “Had No Criminal History in NYC” which is not true, he was arrested in The Bronx on a gun-possession charge last year but was released despite an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer to hold him. She went on to state the other savage D’Angelo Caraballo had two priors, one for allegedly threatening to stab a person who rented him a room in The Bronx in July and a 2025 gun-possession charge. While later speaking about recidivism she fails to mention the part bail reform plays into him still being on NYC streets. The menacing case was not “bail-eligible”but Bronx prosecutors sought bail in the gun case but the judge released him with no bail and “supervision”. Politics has no business in public safety, the facts of the case should be presented to the public regardless of how inconvenient they are to supporters of sanctuary policies and bail reform. Also the above facts are not “Breaking News” we spoke about this yesterday morning on The Finest Unfiltered, how did we know the facts of this case before Jessica S. Tisch ? The answer, we didn’t.
John D. Macari Jr. 🇺🇸🗽38,577 просмотров • 18 дней назад
44% of White New Yorkers cannot afford the real cost of living in NYC yet they are excluded from NYC’s Racial Equity Plan. White New Yorkers not only helped to build New York City, they continue to help keep it running, why are they being shut out of NYC Government?
John D. Macari Jr. 🇺🇸🗽206,879 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад
Why is it a crime for the NYPD to deploy jiu jitsu tactics?
John D. Macari Jr. 🇺🇸🗽38,750 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch states the NYPD will NOT cooperate with or help ICE. Since NY is refusing to help the federal government in going after crimes & public safety threats, President Trump should pull all federal funding to the NYPD, NYC and NY State.
John D. Macari Jr. 🇺🇸🗽185,161 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani doubles down on disbanding the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group (SRG) which are essentially the riot police. Disbanding the SRG will weaken public safety and leave New Yorker’s vulnerable to not only periods of civil unrest but also acts of terrorism.
John D. Macari Jr. 🇺🇸🗽20,622 просмотров • 26 дней назад
A NYPD Sergeant was sucker punched while interviewing a suspect. This is why you must keep distance and speak to everyone while in the interview stance (hands up in front of you and legs in a boxing stance). Tactics cannot be removed because they appear intimidating to some.
John D. Macari Jr. 🇺🇸🗽165,990 просмотров • 10 месяцев назад
Here is a video of Gusmane Coulibaly, 27 who was arrested this morning and charged for his alleged role in a snowball fight in which NYPD officers were pelted with snowballs in Washington Square Park earlier this week. This video is from his YouTube channel which apparently shows his arrest for robbery 3 weeks earlier in transit. Here is the link to the full video:
John D. Macari Jr. 🇺🇸🗽133,823 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад
A staffer from NYC Mayor Eric Adams office and long time friend & supporter of Adams Tony Tune Herbert, who is online today suggesting Charlie Kirk Assassination was “KARMA” and Charlie was responsible for his own demise. The Mayors” staffer who calls himself a “Community Advocate” first shared a meme that was posted by another individual which stated “CHARLIE KIRK SPENT HIS ENTIRE LIFE DISPARAGING IMMIGRANTS, DISRESPECTING WOMEN, AND BLAMING BLACK FOLKS, ONLY TO GET SHOT IN ONE OF THE WHITEST PLACES ON EARTH.” The Mayor’s staffer Herbert wrote in sum & substance “Thanks Juan Lotb Concepcion, you hit the nail right on the head or should I say racist!!” Herbert later put out a video defending his post defending the meme he posted stating “I do NOT regret what posting what I posted because it helped me identify the racists on my page” “I shared a clip from somebody else who for the most part, created to help or helped his own demise” “You know when you become a racist and you try to disguise that like your doing something good for humanity, that’s a problem and unfortunately KARMA has come to collect with that being” In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder Eric Adams posted on X : “I am praying for Charlie Kirk, his wife, and their two young children. Political violence has no place in this country, ever. Those who encourage it are enemies of America and must be condemned by every American.” This marks the second time a staffer in Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani Eric Adams office has openly celebrated political violence. Tyler Barberi who worked for NYC Mayor Eric Adams posted “Too Bad He Missed” in the wake of an assassination attempt on President Donald Trump. Adams’ only suspended his staffer for 2 weeks. NYC Deserve a Mayoral Administration that not only denounces political violence in public but one, that does so behind closed doors as well.
John D. Macari Jr. 🇺🇸🗽196,000 просмотров • 1 год назад
When will the Mayor of NYC, The NYPD Police Commissioner or the Unions issue guidance to officers and the public explaining the difference between first amendment activity and harassment & disorderly conduct ? Cops should not have to deal with this nonsense.
John D. Macari Jr. 🇺🇸🗽145,973 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад
INCOMPETENCE OR PERJURY ? You Decide: Officials from NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Office of Mass Engagement testify under oath that government communications made through text messages, Signal, WhatsApp and similar platforms don’t have to be retained because of the “nature” of those communications. That is completely FALSE! NYC’s own records policy says otherwise. According to New York City Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS), the agency responsible for setting citywide records management policy and ensuring City records are properly maintained, their policy which was written on 05/02/2025 on instant electronic messaging is clear: “Messages created while conducting City business are CITY RECORDS” “Routine or purely logistical messages can be considered transitory and disposed of when no longer needed” BUT… “SUBSTANTIVE messages documenting or relating to the decisions, actions or policies of a City office or agency MUST BE RETAINED and transferred to a system that allows for proper preservation” If agencies have to preserve their own social media posts than certainly agencies that are paying others, using taxpayer funds to post for either positive messaging about the current administration or negative messaging about its political opponents has to retain those communications as well. What platform Mamdani’s crew decides to use doesn’t magically erase the government’s records obligations. Text, Email, Signal, WhatsApp, DM’s are irrelevant. The question is WHAT THE MESSAGE DOCUMENTS. Are these officials unfamiliar with NYC’s own records-retention policy or are they attempting to formulate a narrative and give the impression that government business conducted through these apps doesn’t need to be preserved? Is this Incompetence or Perjury? Either answer deserves serious scrutiny. And let’s not forget that this use of taxpayer funds is clearly Electioneering and ILLEGAL. It’s not lost on me that it would behoove this administration to not keep records about this activity but understand that destroying these records is also illegal. Erasing these messages is destroying evidence related to a crime.
John D. Macari Jr. 🇺🇸🗽19,322 просмотров • 1 месяц назад