A New York Police Department detective has been transferred from his position on the Joint Terrorism Task Force after a video of his xenophobic tirade against an Uber driver surfaced online.

Det. Patrick Cherry is in hot water following his rant Monday that was filmed by a backseat passenger and uploaded to social media. As of Tuesday, the 3.5-minute-long video was viewed nearly 800,000 times on YouTube alone.

The officer at one point pounds the vehicle with his hand and blurts to the driver, who is of unknown nationality, "I don't know what fucking planet you're on," according to the video.

Tuesday's reassignment of Cherry is the latest development in which citizen videos uploaded to YouTube have gotten NYPD cops in hot water. A different NYPD officer pleaded not guilty in February to assault and other charges levied after a bystander captured a Brooklyn tussle on film with a mobile phone. The film shows the officer stomping on the victim's head. And in other instances when police brutality has been caught on film, the NYPD has sanitized Wikipedia entries about it.

In the latest videotaped incident, detective Cherry also blurts, according to the video: “I don't know where you're coming from, where you think you're appropriate in doing that. That's not the way it works. How long have you been in this country?” the white officer screamed at the Uber driver.

Driving an unmarked car in the West Village and with lights flashing, Cherry pulled over the unidentified Uber driver. The vehicle's passenger said the officer's rage was ignited when Cherry was trying to park his vehicle in traffic without turning on his blinker. The Uber driver passed him and "gestured" that he did not use his signal, according to the passenger who posted the video.

The driver kept apologizing to the officer during the rant, to no avail, according to the video.

"You don't let me fucking finish," Cherry yells, according to the tape.

The Internal Affairs Bureau is reviewing the incident following the driver's complaint, according to the New York Daily News, which first reported on the detective's plight.

The Joint Terrorism Task Force includes NYPD and federal officers.

A police association leader defended Cherry, who before the incident had just visited a fellow detective in the hospital who was suffering from cardiac arrest.

"The past five days have been emotionally draining for the members of the JTTF dealing with their fellow detective's health," Michael Palladino, president of the Detectives Endowment Association, told the Daily News. "Despite what some people think, cops have feelings, too."

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