NYPD on distancing patrol make violent arrest

New York City -- I respect the police and always have, but, as with any group of people, there is at least one scumcrumpet that stands out and gives the entire group a bad name. In this case the alleged scumcrumpet gave the NYPD the name 'Gestapo,' or 'Sturmtruppler.'

The cop, Francisco Garcia, was caught on video Saturday pointing a stun gun a guy and then violently throwing him to the ground and hitting him after he apparently had the guy under control, which seemed to be the moment he approached the man.

The entire incident was over an alleged social distancing violation which may actually be unconstitutional, but that's for the lawyers to figure out. The cop [fun fact: the word 'cop' comes from the fact they used to be called 'coppers,' and that was because the original police uniforms used copper buttons] has been stripped of his weapon and badge and placed on desk duty pending an internal investigation.

The video, which was taken by a bystander, 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 levelling him in a crosswalk in Manhattan’s East Village.

“There will unquestionably be a careful look at what happened there,“ the incompetent Comrade Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday.

Police spokeswoman, the lovely Sgt. Mary Frances O’Donnell, said Wright “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. 

Judge for yourself, if you believe you have enough evidence from the video, but the fact that the cop hit him when he was down clearly shows me, at least, that he was acting out of anger and a sense of power.

Wright had not been arraigned as of Sunday afternoon, prosecutors said.

Wright’s arrest and that of two other Americans minutes earlier on the same block across from a public housing complex raised serious questions about the police department’s use of force, as well as the role of officers in enforcing social distancing measures and inconsistency in how they’re applied.

The NYPD assigned 1,000 officers to social distancing patrols over the weekend. On Saturday, they issued 51 summonses, including 43 in city parks. 

Minutes before the confrontation with Wright, video from a nearby security camera showed officers used force in arresting a couple for allegedly failing to comply when asked to disperse. O’Donnell said officers saw that one of them, a 31-year-old man, had a “bag of alleged marijuana in plain view.”

The bystander video of Wright’s arrest showed the plainclothes officer Garcia, who was not wearing a mask, helping take one of those people to the ground before turning his attention to Wright, who was moving toward the area of that arrest from about 10 to 15 feet away.

Garcia — in a black T-shirt, jeans and a Yankees cap — turned toward Wright and cursed at him to “(get) back right now,” according to the video. At the same time, the officer pulls up his Taser and points it toward Wright.

Garcia continued toward Wright and eventually holstered his Taser. It wasn’t clear what Wright was doing because he wasn’t in the frame the entire time, though just before Garcia tackled him, he was seen stopping and standing in front of the officer with what appeared to be a clenched fist at his side.

“What you flexing for? Don’t flex,” the unmasked Garcia said, before grabbing Wright and wrestling him to the ground, slapping and punching him in the process. The officer then took Wright’s arm and dragged him from the crosswalk where he landed back onto the sidewalk and pushed him onto his stomach.

The video then showed another officer stepping in and helping handcuff Wright.

Kneeling on the top of Wright’s back or neck to keep him down, the plainclothes officer started cursing at bystanders, which is never a good look.

One of them yelled back: “he didn’t even do nothing,” which is a double-negative and might imply that by not doing nothing, he must have been doing something.

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