Published:
13 nov 2021 05:23 GMT
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The incident took place while officers were trying to evacuate a homeless encampment on a Manhattan street.
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A video posted on the World Star website Thursday captured the moment a New York police officer beat a homeless man unconscious while evicting a homeless camp on a city sidewalk.
Yesterday, NYPD officers raided a homeless encampment—and one officer was caught on camera repeatedly punching someone who simply didn’t want to leave their home. pic.twitter.com/Hzsu4e5RMC
— The Campaign to End Qualified Immunity (@campaigntoendqi) November 11, 2021
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The recording shows how an unidentified officer tries to handcuff the homeless man, but he resists and grabs his leg. Another uniformed man appears running on the scene and the homeless man falls to the ground, at which point the first agent hits him several times until the man stops moving.
“It has rendered him unconscious. He is not moving,” a witness is heard saying.
According to the Daily Mail, the incident took place on MacDougal Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, without knowing exactly when it happened. Neither NYPD spokespersons nor Mayor-elect Eric Adams responded to the newspaper’s request for comment.
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