Police report filed with NYPD over Gracie Mansion dustup that ended with cell phone flinging

The Department of Correction’s compliance caput filed a constabulary study against her agency’s apical spokeswoman Thursday aft they got into a caught-on-camera dustup that resulted successful a compartment telephone being flung crossed the country during an lawsuit astatine Gracie Mansion, the Daily News has learned.

The spokeswoman, Annais Morales, got into the beef with Mariam Singh, the department’s wellness and information compliance director, during a Hispanic Heritage event hosted by Mayor Adams  astatine Gracie Mansion connected Tuesday night.

Video circulated connected societal media showed Singh trying to instrumentality a video connected her cellphone arsenic the politician came down the stairs to participate the country wherever the lawsuit was being held, erstwhile Morales started grabbing astatine and past yet snatching the telephone distant from her hands and tossing it crossed the room.

On Thursday morning, Singh filed a study with the NYPD’s 19th Precinct, which includes Gracie Mansion, implicit the incident, said Ali Najmi, Singh’s lawyer.

“The video speaks for itself — my lawsuit was waiting for the politician to travel down. She has the telephone out. We can’t recognize wherefore Morales does this. It makes nary consciousness wherefore she decided to accost and onslaught Dr. Singh,” Najmi said. “Given Dr. Singh’s relation arsenic a assemblage leader, we don’t privation this occurrence to repetition itself. I privation to commend Dr. Singh for her composure and professionalism successful that moment.”

Morales did not instantly instrumentality a petition for comment. The NYPD property bureau did not instantly comment, either.