Two New York City police officers are under investigation after video surfaced of one of them shoving a rider out of a subway platform for allegedly asking them to wear a mask Tuesday morning.
Andrew Gilbert says he was on his way to work when he saw the unmasked officers patrolling the 8th Street station in Manhattan's Greenwich Village.
He started filming the cops and asked them to put masks on, in compliance with the rules of the New York Police Department and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the city's trains and buses.
'The male officer was playing dumb and claimed he couldn't hear me. I kept asking him over and over, "Do you know it's illegal not to wear a mask?" Gilbert told AM New York Metro.
'I kept asking him the same thing and then he said, "You're being disruptive," which I guess is their key word for doing whatever they want if they declare you disruptive.'
A NYPD spokesman told DailyMail.com that the two officers involved in Tuesday's shoving are under internal review. He declined to identify them, citing their 'right to due process,' but said he believes officers are required to wear masks on the train.
Two maskless NYPD officers shoved a masked rider off a subway platform Tuesday morning
The rider, Andrew Gilbert, said he had filmed the cops and asked them to put their masks on
The officers were then seen pushing him out of the 8th Street Station in Greenwich Village
A male officer is seen pushing Gilbert out of the platform with both hands in a 35-second video posted on Twitter just before 9am Tuesday.
Gilbert is heard making unintelligible statements as trains speed by during the busy morning rush hour.
The male officer manages to pin Gilbert against the emergency exit, at which point a female officer pushes the door open to eject him.
The male officer says, 'You're being disruptive.'
It's not clear what Gilbert was saying, though he's later heard asking for the officers' badge numbers from the other side of the door.
Meanwhile, the two officers lean against the platform wall and ignore him.
Gilbert later said: 'He just walked into me, grabbed me and pushed me.
The officers then leaned against a wall and ignored Gilbert's pleas for their badge numbers
The two officers involved, one male and one female, are now under internal review, police say
'He grabbed me by the shirt and pushed me over to the emergency exit and slammed me through it, and was yelling at me how, "If you’re not
