Dad of NYPD cop who gave lieutenant lap dance says she's been 'crying and crying'

The father of the rookie New York City police officer who was filmed giving a lap dance to her married lieutenant during a raunchy Christmas party says his daughter has been crying over the ordeal and that he plans on suing.

The angry dad made the comments on the same day that Lieutenant Nick McGarry’s wife furiously confronted a New York Post reporter who approached the couple for comment outside their home in Orange County, New York, about 70 miles north of Manhattan.

The unnamed rookie’s father told the Post on Monday that his daughter told him: ‘Daddy, I made some mistake. I’m very embarrassed about what I did. I embarrassed you and my family.’ 

The father told the Post that his daughter is ‘frustrated’ over the incident.

‘She cried and cried,’ he said. ‘She is young. She doesn’t know how but he is married, the lieutenant. He should know better.

‘I am going to sue them.’ 

Meanwhile, there was further drama when the lieutenant and and his wife were approached by a reporter outside their home in Orange County, New York. 

‘F*** you!’ Melissa McGarry told the Post reporter and a photographer outside the couple’s home in New Windsor as she was restrained by her husband.

‘It’s not worth it, get back in the car,’ the lieutenant told his fuming wife as she continued her rant.

Melissa McGarry told the press members: ‘There are other things to worry about in this world!’

As the couple drove away, Melissa McGarry took her hands off the steering wheel and flipped the bird to the reporter with both hands, screaming: ‘F*** you! F*** you! F*** you!’ 

According to her social media page, Melissa McGarry is a leasing assistant and resident events coordinator at Water Club Luxury Living, an apartment and condominium complex in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Phone calls to a number listed under her name went unanswered. 

Her husband has reportedly been reassigned to a Transit unit after he was filmed receiving a lap dance from one of his underlings during a raucous holiday party.

The shocking video from the 44th Precinct’s annual bash shows the rookie female officer in a checkered mini-skirt and knee-high boots grinding her backside on Nick McGarry’s lap as he sits in a chair and holds onto her thighs in the middle of a bar.

In another video, she turns around to face McGarry and straddles the precinct commander as he grabs her by the waist. She then holds onto the lieutenant’s head as she continues to gyrate on him. 

Police brass wasted no time in disciplining McGarry, who has been with the NYPD since 2010, after the tawdry video surfaced from Thursday’s $75 per-person party, which featured a DJ and open bar. 

He has reportedly been reassigned to Transit District 12 in the Bronx, with an unnamed source telling the New York Post, that the lieutenant ‘knows he f***** up.’  

‘Messing with your subordinate is a no-no on the job,’ the source said, adding that the rookie cop ‘doesn’t know any better because she just came on the job.

‘I can’t even tell you how many times they tell incoming supervisors that,’ he said, noting: ‘It sets a bad precedent.’ 

It is unclear who the female officer is or if she will be disciplined. The NYPD did not immediately respond to a request for comment from DailyMail.com.

 The lap dance took place at Rory Dolan’s bar in Yonkers, according to the flyer for the event. 

An Instagram post geotagged at the bar shows a different young woman posing in front of a Christmas tree with the hashtags #NYPD and #holidayparty.

The rookie officer in the video appears carefree as she throws her hands in the air and dances on her superior to cheers from the crowd.

One onlooker, meanwhile, yelled ‘Oh my God,’ and another appeared to hand the lieutenant a wad of cash. 

In a different scene, she grinds on a different person, who is bent over and facing the floor. 

Law enforcement sources say the two cops have yet to be questioned, but that higher-ups are furious at the situation, and have since reassigned McGarry.

McGarry has been an officer with the NYPD since July 2010 and has served as a lieutenant at the 44th Precinct since April, according to 50-a.org, a website that compiles public records to make profiles of individual officers. 

He made $188,000 last year, the website states, and has been named in multiple lawsuits, resulting in settlements totaling at least $130,000, though his direct role in the allegations is unclear. 

The NYPD found that the the complaints were ‘unsubstantiated.’

McGarry apparently worked in the nearby 42nd precinct in 2017, when he was admitted to the Sergeant’s Benevolent Association, before taking the helm at the 44th precinct – which covers about two miles of southwest Bronx, including Grand Concourse, Bronx Terminal Market and Yankee Stadium.

The Police Benevolent Association, the largest NYC cop union, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from DailyMail.com. 

The embarrassing incident occurred just days before Keechant Sewell takes over as the NYPD’s first female top cop. She will inherit a murder rate that is 50 percent higher than it was before the pandemic and shootings that have doubled since 2019, according to the most recent crime statistics released by the NYPD. 

Sewell is set to become the first black woman to hold the post after being tapped for the position by Mayor-elect Eric Adams on Wednesday.

Crime statistics published by the NYPD show shootings, murders and auto grand larceny have all nearly doubled while murder is up 50 percent in the city compared to 2019 as of December 5. 

There have been 1,470 shootings, 443 murders and 9,595 cases of auto grand larceny, according to the latest data for the year.

NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea, who departs at the end of the month, has blamed bail reform laws enacted by the Democratic-dominated state Legislature for the spike in violent crime.