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Posted: 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012

Uproar after SF cop posts speeding POV video on Facebook

SF's Broadway Tunnel, Sgt. Carl T (graphic)
SF's Broadway Tunnel, Sgt. Carl T (graphic)

KTVU.com

SAN FRANCISCO —

A video posted on Facebook by a San Francisco police officer was causing uproar Wednesday because it not only showed a driver traveling at high speeds, but his comments indicated that he and others in the vehicle were intoxicated.

In a video posted to the Facebook page of San Francisco Police Sgt. Carl T (formerly Carl Tennenbaum) back in September titled “Broadway tunnel, 100 miles per hour in the Lambo,” shows a car, identified as a Lamborghini, speeding through the tunnel, which connects San Francisco's Chinatown and Russian Hill neighborhoods.

The speed limit for driving through the tunnel is 35 mph.

While the video itself is questionable, a comment T posted about the joyride on his page indicated that he and others in the car were drunk at the time.

Though T is never seen in the video, nor can the car’s speed be accurately determined, city officials such as San Francisco Supervisor Mark Farrell found the post to be offensive.

“I think no matter who it is, [the video] is offensive. It violates our public safety here in our city,” said Farrell after seeing the footage Wednesday.

Farrell said later that he spoke to SF Police Chief Greg Suhr about the video.

“They're investigating internally who it was. I know there were comments about it being a police officer. He said they're looking at that,” said Farrell.

Supervisor David Chiu, whose district, District 3, includes the tunnel, also expressed dismay at the footage Wednesday.

“This is absolutely dangerous and inappropriate behavior, and we can't have folks going 100 miles per hour through the Broadway tunnel.

The posting has since been removed, and Carl T told SF Weekly Wednesday that they weren't drunk or going 100 miles per hour at the time. And that in fact, he was neither driving nor shooting the video.

KTVU later confirmed through a source that Carl T did recently have access to an orange Lamborghini.

T told the SF Weekly that he was one of three people in the car, a two-seat 2011 Lamborghini Gallardo that a friend of his had rented.

 “Certainly if it is a police officer, they're going to take the appropriate actions and the chief assured me of that,” said Chiu.

The post was reportedly removed from T’s Facebook page (which has been deleted) around the time KTVU reporter John Sasaki told SF Police Union President Gary Delagnes about the video.

T, who legally changed his name from Tennenbaum after a superior officer informed him that he couldn’t use his nickname, “Carl T” on his name tag, was credited for convincing a man contemplating suicide to come down from the Lefty O’Doul bridge back in March of 2010.

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