Harrington, who works out of the Manhattan South task force, told the Daily News yesterday he regrets telling colleagues he is gay.
A gay cop charged yesterday he has been persecuted with death threats and homophobic slurs in the NYPD.
Officer Michael Harrington, a five-year veteran, said in a suit filed yesterday the hostility is so pervasive he cannot escape it - despite moving to five different precincts.
One supervisor mockingly told him he was being sent to the West Village "to be with his people," the suit said.
He said an officer at that precinct told him, "All faggots should be shot."
After receiving a death threat in the interdepartmental mail, he complained to his Patrolmen's Benevolent Association delegate, he said. He said the union rep tore up the letter in front of him.
Harrington's is the latest in a long list of complaints of homophobia in the NYPD. In 1997, 800 gay and lesbian cops filed a discrimination suit that was eventually settled out of court.
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