You Have The Right To Remain Lusty? NYPD Cop Bashed For Raunchy Video

By day, Melissa Mercado conducts strip searches for the NYPD, but by night, she transforms into a strip tease—if you let the Boys in Blue tell it.

According to The New York Post, Mercado is facing backlash after a music video she appears in has gone viral.

“But, VIBE, what’s the issue?” you, the reader asks. Well, it turns out that the seven-year veteran on the force is seen in the video committing the most heinous crime ever: pole dancing.

The cop appears alongside rapper S-Quire in his visuals for a song called “Doin’ That,” gyrating, twerking, and touching her body while twirling on a pole in a club. Quire occasionally tosses money at the police officer, with other scenes finding the artist rapping about what he would like to do with the voluptuous multi-hyphenate.

“Wanna tell you ’bout a girl named Keisha,” the rapper, né Phavian Winfield, tells the audience—who evidently included some of Mercado’s co-workers. “A** thick. Just want to smash it quick…I like the way she’s doin’ that, the way she’s sliding up the pole.”

The NYPD told the outlet that they found the veteran cop’s behavior alarming. One unnamed officer felt that the curvy woman’s actions were disgusting, saying, “I have no words.” Mercado, who allegedly makes $144,000-a-year as a grade 3 detective on the Bronx special victims unit, doesn’t wear any police garb in the music video. However, that didn’t stop her co-workers and peers from laying down the firm glare of judgment. “There’s a line of thinking that what you do off duty, you do off duty,” retired NYPD Special Victims Division Chief Michael Osgood said. “But I think this conduct is unbecoming of a police officer. I find it wrong morally if you’re a special victims detective.”

But some officers in the force asserted that whatever Mercado has going on outside of the precinct is her business. Some members of the police union opined that, “What she’s doing really has nothing to do with her as an employee, as an NYC detective.” And while this swath of the unit doesn’t care, they cautioned Mercado to move accordingly if she is doing this side gig for cash.

“If she is performing for money, if she has a side gig, the job would want to know about that,” another source said. “The member would be obligated to file an off-duty employment application. I would say nothing she does in the video is the department’s business.”

Regardless, it is an interesting story. Like, imagine how different the world would be if police officers had this same energy for, say, the NYPD, killing hundreds of civilian complaints accusing the department of misconduct. Imagine.

Well, anyway, watch S-Quire’s “Doin’ That” video, starring Melissa Mercado, above.