A retiring Rikers Island captain named a pair of sexual misconduct lawsuits got a celebratory goodbye from his colleagues, video obtained by the Daily News shows. Capt. Edwich Jasmin, a 37-year-old veteran, received a celebratory escort from a parade of emergency vehicles, lights and sirens blaring, to cheer him out as he left Rikers Island and drove into Queens Dec. 4, sources said. Jasmin has been sued twice in Brooklyn Federal Court for sexual harassment. Shante Orr sued Jasmin Nov. 12 for sexual harassment, four years after the city paid $250,000 to settle a similar lawsuit filed against the captain by another female officer, court records show. Video from the celebratory “walkout” shows the slow parade of vehicles, including Correction Department Transportation Division buses usually used to ferry detainees to and from the island, in front of and behind Jasmin’s car, stopping traffic as he heads to the gate leading to the bridge off Rikers Island. Jasmin worked in the Transportation Division on Rikers. At least one civilian car leaving the island is pulled to the side waiting for the caravan to pass, the video shows. The motorcade passes a digital messaging sign that reads, “Thank you for your service. Get home safe.” The motorcade passes a digital messaging sign set up for all officers that reads, “Thank you for your service. Get home safe.” “It looked like they were praising a hero, when what they should have been doing was condemning his actions,” said Paul Liggieri, the lawyer who represented Joanne Vega in the earlier suit. “It’s pretty disgraceful. I am astounded that that’s the message the Department of Correction wants to send to officers who are abused or sexually harassed,” he said. Paul Idlett, the new president of the Correction Captains Association, said the escort was appropriate for a man who had served the city for more than three decades. “He gave 37 years of service to the city. He should be commended for the time of service he gave to the department,” said Idlett, the successor of longtime president Patrick Ferraiuolo who recently retired. Idlett noted that Jasmin’s 29-year-old son, Joshua Jasmin, was shot and killed on Long Island Aug. 30. Romeo Campbell, 23, has been arrested and charged with the crime. He said Jasmin filed retirement papers in mid-November. “He wanted to go and take care of his family after that and decided to retire. He retired before the lawsuit allegation was made. He was leaving anyway,” Idlett said. CORRECTIONSTheodore Parisienne for New York Daily NewsA Department of Correction bus leaves Rikers Island. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News) In a statement, Correction Department spokeswoman Shayla Mulzac confirmed Jasmin is retiring but noted the escort was not arranged by the department. “It is not uncommon for staff to voluntarily provide a small ‘send-off’ to honor colleagues who are retiring,” Mulzac said in the statement. “Any celebration honoring Capt. Jasmin was not organized by the department.” The New York City Department of Corrections logo is pictured on the floor of a Rikers Island jail. (Todd Maisel/New York Daily News) Jasmin made $274,561 in fiscal year 2024, more than doubling his base salary of $125,855 with overtime and other compensation, according to public payroll records. He remains on the books because he has vacation days to burn through, sources said. DOC officials wouldn’t comment on whether Jasmin had been investigated or disciplined for sexual misconduct in any of the past incidents or other incidents. Jasmin, who cost the city a $250,000 settlement after a Correction Department subordinate accused him of sexual abuse in 2019, was sued again on Nov. 12, accused of tormenting, harassing and sexually assaulting a correction officer under his command for six months. “I would assume that after my case, the department would have taken additional measures to ensure that officers were protected, and to leave Jasmin in that environment, to only permeate it more with hostility and discrimination is astounding to me,” said Liggieri. New York City Department of Correction officer at Rikers Island’s George R. Vierno Center. (James Keivom/New York Daily News) Vega in 2017 accused Jasmin of sexually assaulting her two years prior, shortly after she was assigned to the Transportation Division. She says he ordered her into a men’s locker room, where he forcibly kissed her, shoved his tongue in her mouth, grabbed her breasts and forced her hand onto his crotch. Idlett countered, “His cases are allegations. Nothing was sent to us that indicated anything was pending.” In the new lawsuit against Jasmin, Correction Officer Shante Orr claims he repeatedly propositioned her, exposed himself to her and forcibly kissed her over six months in 2022 and 2023, after she was placed on modified assignment and sent to the Transportation Division on Rikers. Jasmin ran the Transportation Division store, where correction officers sell food. The suit lists about two dozen separate incidents alleging Jasmin made inappropriate remarks, tried to pressure Orr into sex or groped her. At one point, he exposed his penis to Orr, the suit alleges. Before the filing of the lawsuit Orr filed an internal EEO complaint and received a right-to-sue letter as is customary in such cases.