NYPD cop turns himself in for attacking female MTA employee...sick thug

[SummerSnow]

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/nypd-turns-attacking-female-mta-employee-article-1.2063013

Police Officer Mirjan Lolja, 37 was suspended after he allegedly attacked the 28-year-old transit employee on a Bronx subway platform by putting her in a bear hug, throwing her to the ground and choking her. The NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau is now investigating the incident.
BY PETE DONOHUE , KERRY BURKE , THOMAS TRACY NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Published: Thursday, January 1, 2015, 2:12 PM

An NYPD cop has surrendered in an attack on an MTA worker, officials said Thursday.

Police Officer Mirjan Lolja, 37, was suspended after the assault in which the Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker — who was on-duty and in her uniform — was allegedly put into a bear hug, thrown to the floor and choked, cops said.

“I’m totally outraged,” Joe Costales, chairman of Transport Workers Union Local 100, said of the allegations. “We’re not safe with members of the public, and now we’re not safe from the police.”

The 28-year-old conductor was on the southbound D train platform at the Tremont Ave. station when Lolja confronted her about 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 23, officials said. She was hospitalized with minor back and neck injuries.

Lolja was caught on surveillance video running from the station with a smirk on his face, according to cops.

Once Lolja saw the video on the news, he turned himself in at the 25th Precinct in Harlem, where he’s been a cop for seven years, police sources said.

The officer said he fought with the conductor after she cursed at him for asking when the next train would arrive. When he demanded her ID and took out his phone to take a picture of her, she grabbed it, prompting a struggle, he alleged.

[JI7]

1. yeah, sounds like the cop's story is bs, good thing there is video

[uppityperson]

2. once he saw they had video, he turned himself in? wow, what a guy

[LiberalElite]

3. You got it the wrong way around - he asked her when the next

train was coming, and apparently didn't like her answer. For one thing, they don't run too often at that time of night.

P.S.: FWIW that's not the D train station. For some reason the NYDN showed a different subway line station. The D train is underground in the Bronx.

[Warpy]

4. Yeah his story stinks out loud

We'll get her story later.

My guess is that he was stinko and looking for somebody to punch and didn't want to wait until he got home and could start in on the wife and kids.

[exboyfil]

5. Wonkette has an interesting discussion

on how the tone of the story changed once it was revealed that the suspect was NYPD.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/thug-attacks-female-mta-employee-bronx-cops-article-1.2061700
A hulking brute grabbed a 28-year-old MTA employee up in a bear hug at a Bronx train station, shoved her onto the platform and began choking her in an unprovoked attack - then ran away smiling, authorities said Wednesday.

http://wonkette.com/570758/smirking-thug-who-attacked-lady-subway-worker-was-an-nypd-cop-surprise