A Greenpoint woman’s altercation with a police officer over carrying her sick dog through the subway has put her out of a job. To recap: Chrissie Brodigan, a VP for Online Media at Plum TV, says that after she argued with Officer Joel Witriol while trying to carry her pug out of the subway, he arrested her, grabbed her breasts, and punched her in the back while saying, “If you’re going to act like a woman I’m going to treat you like a woman.” Other witnesses corroborated Brodigan’s account, but one witness and an unidentified source told the Post that Brodigan yelled at Witriol, the city’s first Hasidic officer, “You f—ing Jew, you’re not even human. Jewish people think they own everything.”
Brodigan initially said that although she yelled at Witriol, she “did not recall” saying anything anti-Semitic. (The following day she e-mailed us to firmly deny saying anything anti-Semitic or about Witriol’s Jewish identity. Other witnesses backed her up.) But it seems that her initial Reaganesque denial is what cost her her job; she tells us today:
I was terminated for “equivocating” in the press. My boss [Chris Glowacki] is threatening to not offer an agreeable severance package, including health insurance, which is crucial because i have cystic fibrosis and he is aware. He’s angry that this is out in the press. I think he made a judgment based on perceived bigotry.
UPDATE: A publicist for Plum TV writes: “Chrissie Brodigan is no longer employed by Plum. Her employment was terminated for valid reasons, unrelated to the determination of whether or not she made the objectionable statements as alleged in the press. We will have no further comment.” Post reporter Reuven Blau has not responded to our inquires about the article; according to his Post colleague Reuven Fenton, Blau is the one who “found” the mysterious witness Viane Delgado in the narrow window of time between when we broke the full story and when the Post print edition went to bed.
No other media outlet has quoted Viane Delgado, and we’re still trying to obtain a copy of the police report to see if Delgado was quoted there. (Though an NYPD spokesman’s comment that the anti-Semitic charge “sounds like something you’re reading in other papers” leads us to suspect there is nothing about that in the police report.) Of course, Blau is under no obligation to elaborate on his witness or “source” or even return our phone calls, but a source tells us the Post is full of shit. (Our source also tells us that dogs bite men.) Below, Chrissie’s long open letter to the media about her termination.
An Open Letter: How I Got Slandered By the New York Post & NYPD
“On Monday, June 30, I was wrongfully arrested and physically abused by the NYPD. The arresting officer who manhandled happens to have been the first Hasidic cop on a force of more than 30,000.
In the days that followed the incident, which became well-publicized, because bystanders photographed the arrest and called the “police” on account of the improper behavior of the arresting officer, and because I had the courage to defend my rights and resisted abuse with the support of these witnesses, the situation has become an unimaginable nightmare for me.
I have been falsely accused of being a bigot by the New York Post in an act of the most irresponsible journalism I have ever experienced, and now I have been fired from a job I loved and was great at on account of these vicious accusations and my alleged failure to respond “vigorously enough” to them.
Here is what happened:
Two days after my arrest the New York Post came out with a vicious article in which anti-Semitic remarks were attributed to me by an alleged witness.
Either the Post fabricated the existence of this witness, who despite an exerted effort by both journalists at Gothamist and myself has never been located, or they fabricated her remarks.
There were witnesses at the scene and these witnesses did not hear me make any anti-Semitic remarks and specifically did not recall the existence of the Post’s alleged witness. I do not believe that this witness was at the scene nor did any witness hear me make antisemitic remarks.
The truth is that smearing the victim is a classic police technique to cover up abuse and protect the arresting officer.
I am not a bigot, and accusations of bigotry are so absurd that I did not think it even necessary to respond to them.
My “suspension” and now my firing requires that I make things clear to the public.
During the course of my arrest, I did not:
- Utter the words “Jewish” or “Jew.”
- I did not say, “You Jews think you own the world.”
- I did not use the phrase “You fucking Jews . . . “
- I did not say anything that any person, reasonable or not, could have interpreted to mean any reference whatsoever to the obvious religion of the cop who was manhandling me.
These anti-Semitic comments printed by the New York Post never crossed my lips on the day I was wrongfully arrested and physically abused. And, to be even more succinct, those words and statements have NEVER crossed my lips on any other day in my life. EVER.
I believe that ultimately the evidence will come out that the police were involved in the Post’s smear job of me, which was an effort to cover up police misconduct.
Under these circumstances it is important that you know who I am:
My academic background at George Mason University involved an undergraduate degree in English with a minor in African American studies that culminated in an honors thesis about the civil rights movement. My graduate studies and masters degrees, I focused my coursework on the history of immigrants, gay, lesbian, black, hispanic, disabled and other oppressed people. My masters thesis and subsequent doctoral dissertation focused on gender discrimination and women’s rights in the workplace. Indeed, I note that my principal doctoral advisors were all Jewish.
I have devoted my adult life to studying and supporting the civil rights of minorities.
To smear me as an anti-Semite is both cowardly and a disgrace and victimizes me once again. I expected more from a community to whom I have devoted my best efforts.”
It simply amazes me how cowardly others have become in this world. This lady is trying to protect her freind dog and these trolls take advantage of her. It is amazing what they get away with.. Thanks for posting this it is exposing there sick mentality.
I agree. To fire someone on the basis of a denied, unsubstantiated, uncorroborated allegation of any kind is outrageous.
See http://sydwalker.info/blog/2009/07/14/puking-pug-saga-shows-plum-tv-sucks/
the poor jew did nothing, he was being poisocuted by the nazi girl, capital punishment seems proper Oy Vey!
off with her breasts i say!! When will these faithful shabbos goy of the jew realize that they are fair weather sponges to be wrung till dry and then discarded like a cattle that no longer serves its purpose. Wake up goys, the jew is not your friend.
Well, I didn’t expect this. I saw the woman speak and she’s obviously decent. This is another way these rotten Jews try to control us, by instilling the fear of job loss just for defending yourself against their unwarranted assaults. It’s just more proof that we whites have got to band together and defend ourselves against any minority who tries to destroy our lives.
yeah, shes a rich bitch from NY. as usual, she was undereducated, and assumed that taking a LEFT WING approach to life was proper. well, how doe sthat humble pie taste, bitch? ready for seconds? soon as i heard about this, i knew that PLUM TV was some richy ass station, and that she, as a PUG OWNER was a left wing nut, who I KNEW she would say “devoted her life to helping those being oppressed”.
5 dollars bets she is pro gay rights, pro israel, anti execution, anti drug reformation with a few variances (“hemp!” i hate ‘hemp’ hippes sooo much), pro obama (we needed a black president! this is a positive change for america and the world! yay!), pro abortion, pro lesbian, pro fag, anti meat, pro vegan, pro…
FUCK HER. yeah, we knew it, jew did it, but this NEVER happens to someone like her. get in the unemployment line, girlie. be thankful obama extended it all. thank your jew buddies you love, praise, and protect soo much. call us educated goy when youre honestly ready to see the real world.
I’m sorry but after reading her reaction, I do not believe she made the remarks, and after she explained her background, I believe she actually DESERVED what happened to her.
“…minor in African American studies that culminated in an honors thesis about the civil rights movement. My graduate studies and masters degrees, I focused my coursework on the history of immigrants, gay, lesbian, black, hispanic, disabled and other oppressed people. My masters thesis and subsequent doctoral dissertation focused on gender discrimination and women’s rights in the workplace. Indeed, I note that my principal doctoral advisors were all Jewish.
I have devoted my adult life to studying and supporting the civil rights of minorities.”
I mean COME ON, she’s a product, and willing servant of the Jew! All that happened is she was in the wrong place at the wrong time, so the Jews screwed her over. As far as I’m concerned, she’s one of them.
True or this could be her attempt to back peddle. Either way what the Jew cop did was just another example of their BS. Besides, maybe after seeing all she believes in garbage she could come around. After all, it is where both of us have sort of come from as well as one time right? We forget that now that we know what we know we have to give others the opportunity to learn it as well. Once they refuse the truth, screw up, they get thrown out with the rest.
Hopefully NYPD will make this the last hassid-yid on the force… People need to realize that the behavior of this demon is based on the laws of his peoples’ ancient “holy” book, The Talmud.
It’s likely that Brodigan will never be allowed to work in the jew dominated TV and movie industry again. Hopefully, this will be the seminal event in her life where she finally wakes up to the jew.
This smells of a setup…. These criminal zionists love this type of media BS to sway public opinion towards the “innocent jew” scenario…
This lady goes on and on about being for “civil rights of minorities”, and her course studies into minority rights… This sounds too convenient indeed…
It is a well known ploy by the Zionists to control both sides of any fight.. This seems to be the case here.
yeah, maybe she will wake up, but i dont see it happening, actually. her background suggests that she would very well think of us all as a bunch of “kooks, nazi’s or wacko-s of any other type”.
shes a rich, suburban girl who grew up with a silver spoon in her mouth, she hasnt learned a thing.
Yes! A multicult beeotch got her just reward! I hope she is unemployed for years and dies from her CF.
It should come as no surprise to anyone that people with credentials such as hers infect our media today. They must be removed. This way was as good as any.
Very true. I cant argue too hard for her thats for sure. She does live in NYC and believes everything the Jew teaches her after all. lol
Thank the Gods that may be for the people who said this woman got a taste of her own poison…Thats what you get when you snip at your masters! Maybe now a woman like herself will start to look into what all us “crazy Jew-haters” have been speaking about….I doubt it though, she probably will give money to some temple to show her love for them.
I am a bigot and a racist and I would have told the Jew to go f*ck himself. Obviously because the Jew cop was out of line (is there any other kind?) they had to fabricate the bigoted remarks in order to justify the Jew pig’s behavior. That’s why when dealing with Jews in a confrontation, I just get the pleasantries over with and speak my mind.
this is nothing, come to israel and you will learn when these things happen there are no repercusions