NYPD removes officers' guns and badges, 8 reassigned following chaotic arrest (of WRONG MAN) at Brooklyn liquor store [View all]
crazy drug task force grabbing any black man and beating them to a pulp.
https://brooklyn.news12.com/caught-on-camera-violent-arrest-made-inside-boreum-hill-liquor-store-investigation-underway
News 12 has learned the man has 32 stitches, a broken nose and is getting an MRI to check for a brain injury. People rallied outside the liquor store today including Hawk Newsome, co-founder of Black Lives Matter New York .
"Imagine beating someone so mercilessly and being caught on camera and you have the bravado to keep going," said Newsome.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch released a statement on X, confirming that the officers are now on modified duty.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has also released a statement confirming the investigation, saying the actions of the officers as disturbing and unacceptable.
Police say the man was charged with resisting arrest, but a spokesperson with the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office tells News 12 those charges will be dropped.