The evening Osama Bin Laden was announced as dead, I decided to make a trip to the World Trade Center site and film people’s reactions. I spent the entire night and whole next day there. About 20 hours into my coverage (with no sleep and no coffee), I decided I needed to get a little stealthy and get behind police baracades for the “money shot.” Did you know you can get in big trouble for that? Hipster Cop saw the incident and came to my rescue like a true Clark Kent disguised as Superman, and told his cop friends that it was ok for me to shoot.

Hipster cop saved me (and my footage) from trouble - and now he’s apparently helping out the protesters at Occupy Wall Street. Swoon.

Rick Lee, otherwise known as Hipster Cop, is a NYPD detective who has been working overtime, seven days a week at the Occupy Wall Street protest in Zuccotti Park.  It is his job to act as liaison between the police department and the protesters. MORE»