Friday, 19 February 2021 (YJC)_Disturbing video shows cop punching alleged attacker in the head as assaults on transit police triple in nyc.
The NYPD have been accused of using excessive force after a video showed a cop repeatedly punching a man in the subway. But police claim the officer was acting in self-defense after the suspect allegedly nearly ripped his ear off.
Graphic footage surfaced on Thursday showing three New York Police Department (NYPD) officers restraining a man on the floor of a subway station, while a fourth cop took swings at him, striking him numerous times in the head, face and upper body. The man is seen struggling to break free as the officers eventually turn him on his back and cuff him.
The person filming the video can be heard saying “oh my God” as more police arrived to keep people away from the scuffle. The clip sparked outrage on social media, with many accusing the NYPD of police brutality.
The NYPD described the 50-year-old suspect as a “parole absconder” whose criminal record includes “holding a knife to a strangers [sic] throat in an unprovoked attack” in an incident that occured in 2017.
Patrick Lynch, the president of the Police Benevolent Association, a union for NYPD officers, claimed that the officers in the video had acted appropriately after being “spat on, attacked [and] thrown down a flight of stairs.” He added that one of the transit cops “nearly had his ear ripped off” and said the videos circulating on social media were misleading.
“[T]he pro-criminal crowd doesn’t want you to know how truly dangerous the subways have become – even for police officers,” he claimed.
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