NYPD officer apparently punches Bronx man while trying to arrest him during traffic stop: video
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An online video shows an officer apparently punching a man while trying to arrest him during a traffic stop in the Bronx Sunday.
The NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau is reviewing the incident, in which Timothy Nelson, 24, was dragged from his car after he was pulled over for making an illegal U-turn at E. 229 Street and Laconia Avenue in Edenwald, police said.
Cops said Nelson had been double-parked before making the illegal U-Turn and several other turns without using a signal.
the video, posted on YouTube the day of the incident, begins as an officers pulls Nelson from the car. It was not immediately clear what preceded the altercation.
As three officers take Nelson to the ground, one officer in a T-shirt and shorts is seen apparently punching Nelson, though the officer’s hands are obscured in the video.
YouTube User Paris WOrld uploaded a video on July 26, 2015 that shows a man being arrested by the NYPD. The caption of the video reads, "All over double parking and the funny part is where he was double park at is not where this is taking place at they really are taking this too far where is the true justice" Enlarge
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Two officers are seen trying to move Nelson to the vehicle.
Nelson remains obstructed except for his legs during that section of the recording.
“Ya’ll is punching me on the face, what did I do to deserve this,” Nelson can be heard yelling. The criminal complaint filed in Bronx court said Nelson flailed his arms as cops tried to cuff him.
Nelson was charged with resisting arrest and unlawful possession of marijuana - cops found a baggie of pot in his front pocket, according to the criminal complaint.
During the scuffle, several bystanders gathered around the officers as the cops demanded they stay back, the video shows.
One officer knocks a phone from a woman’s hand as she appears to be filming the melee.
Nelson appears to stiffen as cops try to put him in the back of the police cruiser, as at least ten more officers respond to the scene and move the crowd back.
‘HE PROBABLY HAS AIDS, THE F----T’: Gay Staten Island man says NYPD cops pulled him outside home, beat him while shouting homophobic slurs — SEE THE VIDEO
A gay Staten Island caterer says cops who were captured on video taking him down in his front yard, beat him while shouting homophobic slurs, the Daily News has learned.
Louis Falcone, 31, wasn’t charged as a result of the June 19 takedown, and now plans to sue in federal court for civil rights violations, lawyer Eric Subin said.
“How can you do that - four people on one skinny, scrawny little guy?” Subin asked. “They're criminals; they belong behind bars.”
Falcone, all of 150 pounds, told the Daily News that the officers pulled him out of the Midland Beach home he shares with his mom while investigating a noise complaint at 5:30 a.m.
He says they roughed him up while calling him a “f**”and a “f****t.”
Anti-homosexual slurs aren’t audible on the video, which was taken from across the street and was viewed by the Daily News. “While I was on the ground, I had mud and blood in my mouth,” he said. “One (of the cops) said, ‘Don’t let it get on you, he probably has AIDS, the f****t.’”
The NYPD didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
Falcone says his nightmare began around 4:30 a.m. when his brother arrived at the home “obnoxiously drunk” after a night of partying.
“We had words,” he said. “I was yelling at him; he was yelling at me.”
Louis Falcone, 31, wasn’t charged as a result of a June 19 takedown, and now plans to sue in federal court for civil rights violations, lawyer Eric Subin said.
After the argument, and an hour after his brother left, says Falcone, he was trying to fall back to sleep when four cops showed up at the front door.
The cops told him they were there for a noise complaint, and he described what happened with his brother.
“As I’m talking to them through the screen door, they’re saying to come outside,” Falcone recalled. “I said, ‘For what?”
Then, his dog Looch, part pitbull, began barking.
“The cops said, ‘Get your dog out of here or I’ll f------ kill it!’” Falcone says. “I was like, ‘What do you mean you’re going to kill my dog?’”
He said he was shooing Looch away when an officer yanked Falcone outside.
“They threw me against the concrete in front of my house,” he said. “My first reaction was to try to get up a little bit.”
On the video, one of the officers is seen entering the home. Then, the others try to restrain Falcone on the ground.
Falcone, whose 66-year-old mom can be seen yelling from the doorway, said he had recently undergone foot surgery and was wearing a boot.
“Then they’re hitting me for no reason,” he said. “One puts his knee on my neck. They were all piling on top of me.”
He said he was pleading with cops to be careful with his foot.
“I said, ‘Please, I just had surgery on my foot,’” Falcone said. “One of the cops stepped on my foot. Another cop comes and steps on my head.”
Amid the fracas, it is not clear in the video if an officer stepped on Falcone’s foot.
Falcone says he was left with a broken nose, two black eyes, cuts to his face and body, and needed more foot surgery.
The foot injuries have made it difficult to work for the catering company that employs him, he says.