This is not your average cops and robbers story out in New York City.
The NYPD is on the lookout for a group of men dressed up as, well, them.
Four individuals are at large after posing as police officers and robbing a deli in New York City, officials said ...
When officers arrived on the scene, they were informed 'four unidentified individuals had entered a commercial establishment, displayed a firearm and forced a 48-year-old male, a 68-year-old male and a 40-year-old male to the ground,' police said.
The robbery, which was captured on surveillance footage, shows the suspects wearing NYPD jackets and zip-tying the victims.
Here's some news coverage and surveillance footage of the fake cops robbing the delicatessen.
And the gang is still on the loose! Their dastardly disguise seems to have actually worked.
Surely the employees had their guard down, and I'm sure the cops had a tough time seeing through the disguises.
The store owner, for some reason, is mad at the State of New York for not paying for their security.
During a press conference on Tuesday, the United Bodegas of America urged New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to provide $5 million to increase security efforts at bodegas and place a panic button at each establishment
'If we had what we had been looking for and asking for the last two or three years, we could have prevented this and we could have had these guys arrested. Enough is enough,' Mateo said on Tuesday.
Yeah, I don't think so, Tim.
Cops say they're catching up to the robbers, but no info or arrests have come about yet.
Sources I just made up say these cop wannabes are simply in uniform looking at their phones, so they'll fit right in up in NYC and will likely never be found.
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