A FDNY lieutenant who used a photo of Hitler as his Twitter profile is being sued by a woman he humiliated by tweeting a photo of her ღin a wheelchair ꦐwith the phrase “Wide Load,” court documents state.
FDNY Emergency Medical Service Lt. Timothy Dluhos, 35 — who went by the name “Bad Lieutenant” online — took the embarrassing photo of Teena Gamzon, 65, and later added the 𒀰insult before tweeting, her Brooklyn Supreme Court la𒁃wsuit claims.
“It was horrible,” Gamzon told The Post when the story broke in April. “I’m even embarrassed in front of my gr๊anddaughter. She’s 10 yꦐears old. She has to see her grandmother humiliated like that.”
The photo of Gamzon was published o🧸n the front page of The Post and also on the Daily Mail, Huffington Post, and Gothamist Web sites, the suit states.
Gamzon says publဣication of the photos caused her so much emotional pain, she was “confined to a bed ℱand home for a period of time.”
Besides posting the photo of Gamzon, Dluhos tweeted a𝔍 stream of slurs and called Mayor Bloomberg “King Jew.”
Dluhos later resigned from the FDNY after The Post reported on his hateful rants. He still works for Richmond County Ambulance, a private company, according t🦄o sources.
The suit also names the FDNY, claiming the city’s negligence “was the proximate cause o♔f the ongoing and continuous publication of photographs ridiculing sick and infirmed persons.”
The Post also exp෴osed the racist and anti-Semitic tweets posted by Fire Commissioner Sal Cassano’s own EMT son, Joseph Cassano, who quit th💫e next day.