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An off-duty undercover cop who claimed he took no active role as fellow bikers pulled a Manhattan dad from his SUV and beat him to a pulp actually furiously slapped the car?s back window so hard that it shattered at the height of the bloody road-rage attack, sources told The Post.
The cop, a seven-year veteran, had told investigators he didn?t help the injured man because he rode up to the scene as the beating was nearly over, sources said.
The development came as another biker who helped in driver Alexian Lien?s beat-down was arraigned in Manhattan Court on Tuesday.
Craig Wright, 29, of Brooklyn can allegedly be seen on video throwing punches through the shattered driver?s-side window of the 33-year-old victim?s Range Rover in front of Lien?s terrified wife and 2-year-old daughter. Wright is also seen allegedly kicking Lien outside the SUV. He was held on $100,000 bail Tuesday.
As for the undercover cop, disgusted law-enforcement sources said Monday that Internal Affairs Bureau higher-ups want to nail the officer.
?The cop is a total mope. F?ing embarrassment, ?? one source seethed. ?They should can him immediately. Anyone else who was even peripherally involved should be canned.?
Still, probers believe their hands are tied, sources said, because prosecutors declined to press ahead with the case against another biker, Allen Edwards, 43, of Queens, who allegedly punched the driver?s side rear window of Lien?s SUV before Lien was pummeled.
At the time, the chief of the Manhattan district attorney?s Trials Division, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, defended the move, saying, ?Prematurely charging individuals with low-level crimes does not further the goals of the investigation and could weaken the cases we expect to bring against the perpetrators of serious crimes.?
The investigation is continuing, a source noted.
But the undercover cop will likely face internal charges. He didn?t tell his bosses he was with the bikers ? much less at the crime scene ? until more than three days after the Sept. 29 attack.
The unidentified cop has already been placed on modified duty and turned in his gun and badge.
?I think we all, no matter what your job is, have an obligation to help one another,?? Mayor Bloomberg said on MSNBC?s ?Morning Joe?? on Monday, in response to questioning about the officer?s actions. ?And if you see somebody getting beaten up, you know, let?s go jump in and stop the fight.?
Meanwhile, Christopher Cruz, 28, who allegedly started the chain of events by slowing down his bike to let his pals ahead ? leaving Lien to bump his car into him ? said in an interview aired Monday that he felt no responsibility.
?I was looking over my shoulder to see where my friends were,? he told ABC News. ?I wanted them to pull in front so I could follow them. I didn?t brake, but when I looked over my shoulder, my hand came off the throttle a little, but the driver didn?t slow down at all and bumped me.?
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Undercover Cop Charged in SUV Attack
An off-duty undercover cop was charged with felony criminal mischief Tuesday after smashing the window of a Manhattan driver?s SUV in a fit of rage during a biker-mob attack, sources said.
?He totally lied when he said he did nothing [to help the victim] because he didn?t want to blow his cover,?? a law-enforcement source seethed.
Wojciech Braszczok, 32, was awaiting arraignment in Manhattan Criminal court on the rap, which could land him up to four to seven years behind bars if convicted, depending on how much financial damage he did to Alexian Lien?s Range Rover when he bashed in the glass.
Braszczok didn?t tell his superiors that he?d been part of the ride until three days after Lien?s beat-down ? and then claimed that he was afraid of blowing his cover and too far from the action to help Lien at the time.
But it turned out that video caught Braszczok smashing Lien?s SUV window with his hand in anger during the road-rage attack, sources said. Minutes earlier, Lien had bumped his car into a biker?s ride after the cyclist slowed down in front of him to let his buddies ahead, prompting a high-speed chase and the eventual violence.
If the damage that Braszczok caused to Lien?s car is above $1,500, it?s a D felony carrying a possible sentence of up to seven years, sources said. If the dollar amount is below that, it drops to an E felony, which carries a maximum possible four-year term.
The NYPD?s Internal Affairs Bureau wanted to nail Braszczok on stiffer charges, but prosecutors were still trying to figure out if they could hit him with something such as a gang-assault rap, which carries up to 25 years, sources said.
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