The NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau is probing how officers treated an alleged victim of an armed robbery that rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine has been indicted for, The Post has learned.
The alleged victim, a 32-year-old man who spoke to The Post on condition of anonymity, said he tried multiple times to make a police report on the matter but that the NYPD blew him off.
After being allegedly stonewalled by the NYPD, he filed a complaint with IAB.
“A complaint has been made, and the incident is under investigation,” NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Public Information Phil Walzak said.
The feds charge that Tekashi and members of his crew are part of a murderous city street gang called Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods and that the rainbow-haired rapper and four others are responsible for a gunpoint robbery against Nine Trey rivals April 3 near Times Square.
The alleged victim says he was at a building at West 40th Street and Eighth Avenue along with rival rapper “Junior Boy” – who was doing an interview for rapper 50 Cent’s Web site Thisis50.com – moments before the robbery nearby.
Junior Boy’s publicist was also present, the man said.
“The moment we get downstairs, we are ambushed by three or four individuals with guns … This happens in the foyer area,” the man told The Post as he described the incident.
The man claimed that Junior Boy’s publicist ran from the scene while the thugs swiped a book-bag stuffed with jewelry from another rapper, “Scumlord Dizzy,” who he says was “beefing with
Tekashi.”
Then, the man says, “I’m pressed up against the wall. The gun is pressed to my stomach. At first they tried to pull me out to the car.”
“I didn’t want my iPad stolen,” he said. “I had the iPad pressed up against the wall behind me. They checked my pockets and didn’t find anything … They run out.”
Tekashi – whose real name is Daniel Hernandez — ex-manager Kifano “Shotti” Jordan, Jensel “Ish” Butler, Faheem “Crippy” Walter and Jamel “Mel Murda” Jones have been charged in the April 3
robbery.
Prosecutors allege Tekashi filmed the robbery from a car and that some of the stolen items, including jewelry, were later found at his Brooklyn home.
The man who detailed the alleged incident to The Post said he attempted to make a police report in-person at the Midtown South Precinct on May 10 and at Brooklyn’s 77th Precinct on Nov. 26 –
but that his attempts fell upon deaf ears.
“I was told that I couldn’t file a police report because there was already an ongoing investigation,” the man said. “I said, ‘The report you have is not accurate, or at least it’s not complete.’ ”
When he went to the Midtown South Precinct, the man claims, he was asked by an officer, “Why didn’t you come sooner?”
“My explanation for that is simple,” he said. “When it first happened, I was mortified.”
He said he continued to follow-up with police to no avail.
“At the end of the day, I have something to contribute due to the fact that the person you took the report from was not there,” the man says he told a detective. “The main issue is that I had
a gun pointed to my stomach, and I was not allowed to file a police report.”
The man said he mentioned to a detective that he “felt like part of the reason I was not allowed to do the report initially was because I’m homosexual.”
On Nov. 27, the man said, he tried to again follow-up with the Midtown South Precinct by phone and talk to a detective he spoke with the day before.
“’ Sir, I’m sure some detective is handling it. Whoever that person is is not here right now,’ ” a cop told the man, according to an audio recording of the phone call. “I don’t know what you’re even talking about, so maybe your best bet would be to call back tomorrow.”