'F--- These Cops:' Driver Charged After Hitting Officer, NYPD Says

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — "F--- these cops!"

That's what the Lexus driver who smashed into an NYPD officer on Park Avenue Wednesday said while she was sitting in the back of a police cruiser, according to police officials, who added that she made the profane statement several times.

She then announced that she hit the officer because he wouldn't move out of the way of her luxury sedan — which had been flying against traffic on Park Avenue for several blocks, prosecutors said — and said the violence should be a "lesson to him, and hopefully he doesn't want to be a cop anymore," an NYPD spokesperson told Patch.

Brooklyn resident Sahara Dula, 24, was charged with vehicular assault, reckless endangerment, assault with serious injury and impaired driving charges, police said.

Dula had been driving northbound against traffic on Park Avenue for several blocks at a high speed, according to the criminal complaint, until it was stopped by an officer from the 19th Precinct at East 71st Street.

According to police, Dula attempted to enter the intersection against traffic while police were busy safeguarding an abandoned getaway car from an unrelated robbery of $10,000 of goods from a high-end Madison Avenue shop on Wednesday afternoon.

Dramatic dashcam video obtained by the New York Post shows what happens next.

The black Lexus with New Hampshire plates is at a full stop as the officer tries to prevent the vehicle from traveling against traffic on the busy avenue, when suddenly the driver quickly slams on the gas, sending the cop flying into the air.

The officer suffered a fractured leg and bruising over his body, prosecutors said.

Dula reportedly told officers that she had smoked marijuana and officers said they found the Lexus reeking of weed, as well as buds of cannabis sitting in the car's cup holder, police said.

On Friday morning, Dula was arraigned for Wednesday's incident, with bail set at $25,000, according to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.

In their bail argument, prosecutors called Dula's behavior "egregious" and had initially asked for cash bail to be set at $100,000.

If convicted, Dula would face mandatory state prison time, prosecutors said.