A Long Island man bit a cop, called his mom and crawled around Target in a bizarre tantrum when he was confronted by vigilante predator hunters in a wild video sting.
Mark Zimmerman, 44, lost it inside a Copiague Target on March 3 — when he apparently believed he was meeting a 14-year-old girl but was instead was greeted by members of the group the New York Predator Hunters, according to footage of the encounter.
Zimmerman at first appears calm as he’s questioned by a member of the group, who asks him about sexually charged messages and a picture of his penis that he allegedly sent to the “girl” — with the ambushed man denying the pic was his by weirdly claiming it showed his friend’s genitals, according to the video.
“Is that your penis?” Anthony McGlone, a member of the predator hunters group, asked Zimmerman, according to the video.
“It’s was a friend’s,” Zimmerman responded, the video showed.
But the Massapequa resident’s poise begins to unravel as the interview continues and he briefly leaves the store before re-entering with a waiting police officer in pursuit, according to the video.
“I’m calling my mother!” Zimmerman screamed out as he ran through Target with officers chasing and eventually catching him, the video showed.
“Don’t touch me! I have a heart condition!” Zimmerman repeatedly yelled as cops wrestled him to the ground, according to the video.
The video shows him resisting being handcuffed and being taken to the ground before he appears to bite the officer, then writhes and crawls under a clothing rack.
“You just bit me!” the cop said, according to the footage.
Members of the vigilante group joined in to help detain him for the officer, the crazy video shows.
Zimmerman had allegedly reached out on social media to someone he thought was a teen girl but who was really an adult member of the organization, according to screenshots of texts messages shared by the group.
Zimmerman eventually agreed to meet the “girl” at Target, according to the texts and the video.
Zimmerman didn’t respond to requests for comment from The Post.
He is due back in court on March 23 for his arraignment.
Suffolk County police declined comment on the active investigation.
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