Violent arrest raises concerns about NYPD distancing patrols

“"took a fighting stance against the officer” when he was ordered to disperse and was arrested on charges including assault on a police officer and resisting arrest.""

He Probably did not want to be touched by a NON Masked Plain Clothed Man, I don't blame him for fighting back.

Scary place. Who wants to live in a country where women have to carry stun guns? In japan women have to carry sunscreen.

Kick him out of the NYPD. NO excuse for this, none.

Indeed it sounds more like Moscow, Bush.

This man needs putting in gaol. Reassociate himself with all the other people who's rights he will have violated. Just like most tiny little policemen hiding behind firearms and a uniform acting in this manner. Disgusting ...

Or a badge for that matter heh

Indeed it sounds more like Moscow

Moscow has been running America since 2016!

Can't have a bag of pot but going around fully armed with guns and breaking the law is OK.

Go America. What a nut house

"He didn't do nothing." Officers mistook this double negative: "he did something."

Instead of handing out masks, people should be given those transparent plastic balls that you roll around in. Social distancing would enforce itself...and going to the park would be much more fun.

That profession seems to attract a lot of unhinged and bigoted individuals.

Not just in the US, natch.

Bystander video showed the plainclothes officer, who was not wearing a protective face mask, slapping 33-year-old Donni Wright in the face, punching him in the shoulder and dragging him to a sidewalk after leveling him in a crosswalk in Manhattan’s East Village.

Oh yes, I see social distancing at work here. Shame on the administration of that city and the goons who enforce these made-up rules and in such a way.

I am glad that Japan is still maintaining sanity.