WATCH: (Scroll Down For Video) A disturbing video has emerged online which shows a man stalking an LAPD officer with a gun.<\/p>\n
The footage is the latest in a number of threats to law enforcement in the area as police fear they are being targeted to supposedly atone for controversial police killings.<\/p>\n
‘It’s terrifying,’ Lynn Caprarelli, founder of the LAPD Wives Association, told Daily Mail Online.<\/p>\n
‘It’s not like we don’t know about the threats but when you see footage like that makes it all the more real.’<\/p>\n
The video was posted on Instagram last week and went viral within hours. It has since been taken down.<\/p>\n
It is shot from the driver’s seat of a car parked behind a patrol car.<\/p>\n
The viewer sees an LAPD officer park up and get out the car. The cell phone camera then pans down to show the cameraman holding a handgun in his lap.<\/p>\n
Lynn’s husband, John Caprarelli, retired from the LAPD six years ago after being involved in one of the worst shoot-outs the city has ever seen.<\/p>\n
It prompted Lynn to form the LAPD Wives Association to support women like her.<\/p>\n
‘Now that John’s out, he can’t imagine why any man or woman would want to become a police officer right now.<\/p>\n
‘It’s not a high-paying job, it’s something that you choose to do to help people. You’re putting your life on the line and they are spitting on you.’<\/p>\n
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