Ex-Transit Cop Gets 60 Days For Brooklyn Road Rage Beating: DA

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK -- A former transit cop has been sentenced to 60 days in jail for pistol-whipping and beating a Brooklyn driver with handcuffs during a New Year's Day road rage attack, prosecutors said.

Michael Baror, 25, will serve two months and five years' probation on charges of assault, criminal possession of a weapon, leaving the scene of an incident and reckless driving for the attack in Midwood in 2018, the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office said Tuesday.

“There is no place on the streets of Brooklyn for road rage," said Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.

"This defendant’s aggressive and violent behavior escalated to an assault – criminal conduct that was made worse by the fact that he was a police officer at the time.”

Baror, formerly of Transit District 32, was found guilty in March of attacking another driver on Avenue N and Bedford Avenue at about 10:30 p.m. on Jan. 1, 2018, prosecutors said.

The off-duty cop rear-ended the 29-year-old with his Jeep Cherokee — which was fitted with illegal lights and sirens — then beat the man with his handcuffs and a pistol, said prosecutors.

Baror tried to flee after the attack, but the 29-year-old sped after him as his girlfriend called 911 and copied down the Jeep Cherokee's license plate, according to the DA's office.

The high-speed chase ended when the two cars crashed and Baror was able to flee the scene, according to prosecutors.

Police arrested Baror the next day.