Brooklyn cops who said they were following Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero orders to crack down on reckless drivers and pedestrians gave two bleeding 16-year-old girls jaywalking tickets as they were being treated in an emergency room after a car hit them, their enraged parents told The Post.
Teen pals Beanca Moise and Jo-Anna Thiboutot had suffered multiple fractures and deep bruises in the March 14 accident while crossing busy Flatbush Avenue in Sheepshead Bay.
But the cops told their parents the tickets were mandatory given the mayor’s “zero tolerance” jaywalking policy.
“She was in a hospital bed,” Beanca’s father, taxi driver Reginald Moise, 41, recalled of the moment he was handed the ticket by a 63rd Precinct officer. “There were doctors all over her, giving her IVs and this and that.
“I was very upset,” he remembered. “I told him it was stupid and I didn’t understand. He told me, ‘That’s Mayor de Blasio’s no-tolerance policy.’ ”
Jaywalking summonses have quadrupled citywide — to 2,000 a year — since the mayor enacted the crackdown, city records show.
“It was very insulting,” agreed Beanca, who remains on crutches and needs two more months to recover from fractures and bone contusions in her leg.
Beanca had figured the cops standing near her Kings County Hospital bed less than an hour after the accident were there to see how she was doing.
“I got hit by a car, and they came to the hospital not even checking if I was OK, and just gave us the ticket,” she told The Post.
Thiboutot was still bleeding from deep bruises and gashes when her summons was handed to her stunned mother, Rose Benjamin.
“My daughter was still sitting on the hospital stretcher in the emergency room,” Benjamin told The Post.
The girls’ summonses and the police accident reports — which blame the girls for running into traffic — were both signed by the same 63rd Precinct cop, a “PO Nagle.”
The girls’ families hired lawyer Michael Goldberg to sue the driver and fight the summonses.
“Why did the cop have to come down to the hospital to hand-deliver a ticket while they’re being treated by doctors?” Goldberg raged.
The driver, Edwin Lawrence, 43, was not issued a summons after an independent witness told police he had the right of way.
The girls had crossed into the street mid-block, according to a police source.
A mayoral spokesman said: “There is no such thing as a ‘zero tolerance’ policy on jaywalking. Enforcement decisions are made precinct by precinct as commanding officers see fit, based on conditions they see on the ground.”
With Laura Italiano