Elizabeth police is investigating a TikTok video showing a New Jersey officer threatening to “whoop” and “bust open” someone.
“I’ll come back here at 8 o’clock and I’ll whoop, I’ll bust you open, all up and down this place,” the officer can be heard saying in the video.
“That’s a threat,” a person off camera tells the officer.
“Yeah, I’m threatening him, so what?” the uniformed cop responds.
According to the young woman who posted the video, who goes by gizellexm on TikTok, the person in confrontation with the officer was her brother.
“Cop in Elizabeth, NJ taunts and threatens my brother for a hit-and-run he didn’t commit. They were disrespectful from the beginning and this was when they came back to give the keys they stole from him,” caption on the video read.
A spokesperson for the city of Elizabeth said Tuesday that the city was aware of the post and that an internal affairs investigation is underway.