Crazy experience with an NYPD Parking Attendant at Citi Field yesterday
My wife, 2-year old daughter and I had tickets to the game yesterday.
We arrive at Citi Field and the parking situation is a nightmare. All the paid lots are filled so the Citi Field employees as well as the NYPD are directing traffic to get us to another off-site lot about a half mile away (that I've never been to or heard of, my bad).
There's one cop who, when I rolled down my window to ask where to go, he just screams at the top of his lungs the name of the lot and to keep moving. Whatever.
Then another cop told us to go another way since there's space in one of the on-site lots. We ended up seeing the angry cop again and I told him I was sent back this way. He loses his mind and starts yelling and cursing at us (from 6 feet away from the car) and I got super mad and screamed "Calm the fuck down!"
He then fully loses his mind and I ask for his badge number. Once I did that, he turns on his body cam and asks me for my license and registration and told me to pull over. He then takes like 10-15 minutes in his car (that was blocked from my line of sight) and just hands me a ticket and my paperwork back, no explanation of what he wrote the ticket for so I asked what I was being written up for.
He wrote me a ticket for Disorderly Conduct in which I now have to appear in court to fight/pay the fine. He didn’t even tell me what the ticket was for, he basically threw it in the car and told me to leave. I had to ask what it was for and he said I told him to “shut the f*** up” which I did not say. He then says “you don’t say shit like that to a police officer ever”.
Dude was shaking and incredibly antagonistic and clearly having a power trip on top of a stressful day. The whole ordeal took so long that we didn't even go to the game.
Does anyone have any advice on how to handle this directly with the Mets and NYPD?