Watch: Mass State Trooper Appears To Be Sleeping On Duty

ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS — The Massachusetts State Police are investigating a video that appears to show a state trooper sleeping in his cruiser, MassLive reports. Officials also confirmed to MassLive that as of Tuesday, the unnamed trooper is still on active duty.

A 23-second YouTube video called “My friend Nick catches Massachusetts State Trooper sleeping on the job” shows a trooper appearing to sleep in his cruiser, stationed near a busy highway that Mass Live said appears to be I-495. In the video, which was uploaded Nov. 21, the man behind the camera approaches the cruiser, knocks on the window, and berates the officer.

“Bro, I see you sleeping here every single morning,” the cameraman says to the trooper. “Going on Facebook Live...Every morning I drive by, you’re [expletive] sleeping, I can’t even see you in the front seat.”

The trooper is awake by the end of the video, but it ends before he can respond.

Massachusetts State Police spokesperson Dave Procopio told MassLive that the department is launching an internal investigation into “clearly unsatisfactory behavior.”

“We are aware of the video, which appears to show conduct that is clearly unsatisfactory, and we have opened an Internal Affairs investigation,” Procopio told MassLive.