Philadelphia man allegedly likes a woman’s photo on Instagram. Then her police officer father shows up at his house and allegedly threatens him
It remains unclear how old the daughter was.
A uniformed police officer allegedly showed up at a man’s house in a police cruiser along 54th and Arlington streets in West Philadelphia and accused him of liking his daughter’s photo on Instagram. The officer is now being investigated after footage of the confrontation circulated online, in which he appeared to have shoved the man he repeatedly accused and the person filming the video on Thursday, Nov. 5, per NBC10.
The video was first shared by the Facebook page “NO GUN ZONE Incorporated for Philadelphia,” which claimed that an officer from the Philadelphia Police Department’s 19th District “illegally” entered the property of the person filming and assaulted his friend. The individual also alleged that the officer “threatened to put a bullet” in his friend’s head before his phone was broken after it was slapped out of his hand.
Jerald Bridges, the man accused, told the officer not to enter the property, but the officer continued to approach and repeatedly asked, “You want to like my daughter’s pictures?” Bridges denied the accusation, but the officer insisted that he had liked his daughter’s post.
Bridges received a citation from the Philadelphia officer that day
“That didn’t happen. I did not like photos of his daughter. I don’t know his daughter,” Bridges told NBC10. However, the outlet reported that the argument stemmed from an earlier encounter that day, when the officer confronted Bridges and several other men while they were waiting for food near 54th and Berks streets. Bridges was reportedly handcuffed and detained for disorderly conduct, but was eventually released with a citation.
A source claiming to have evidence told the outlet that within an hour of being cited, Bridges allegedly liked several photos of the officer’s daughters. Bridges disputed this, arguing that several people had found the officer’s Instagram account and commented on his Halloween photos, none of which supposedly featured his daughter.
The video doesn’t establish whether the alleged threat was made, but Bridges maintains that the officer did threaten him. “Even the push, even the assault, that’s fine,” Bridges said. “But to say you’re gonna put a bullet in my head when you really have a weapon, and you can have a weapon, I just think that’s crazy. I’m actually scared. […] That’s the honest-to-God truth.”
Bridges reportedly expressed his desire for the officer to be held accountable and believes there should be a conversation about the officer’s conduct with police leadership.
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