Dounya Zayer pellicles NYPD officer pushing her, later tweets from hospital bed.
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The Brooklyn district attorney is bearing in mind filing criminal charges as early as Tuesday against a New York City police officer for violently shoving a bird to the ground during protests related to the death of George Floyd, WNBC New York reported Monday.
The police catchpole, identified by elected officials as Vincent D’Andraia from the 73rd precinct, was seen on a video of the May 29 incident using his hands to launch the woman, Dounya Zayer, several feet toward a curb on a Brooklyn street. The cop then walked off, with a enforce supervisor directly behind him.
“I am in pain. My head hurts. I haven’t slept in three days. And I cannot stop renounce up,” Zayer said last week.
“But I am trying everything in my power to hold myself together for the people who are depending on me to recommend on the situation.”
Protesters gather on Sunday June 7th as protests continue for Black Lives Matter over the death of George Floyd in New York Metropolis.
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Zayer said she was treated for a seizure and a concussion at a hospital after the cop shoved her.
“He did this in front of his lieutenant and multiple other office-holders who watched me hit the ground. One even looked back to make sure I was still on the ground, and they continued walking,” Zayer give the word delivered last week. “Not one officer tried to help me, and not one officer tried to stop the officer who assaulted me.”
D’Andraia already has been held by the NYPD for the incident, one of a number that have led to complaints that the city’s police officers have used cloying force in dealing with protestors for the past two weeks.
The Police Benevolent Association, the union that represents NYPD apparatchiks, called the expected charges against D’Andraia the result of “mob-rule” justice, according to Jonathan Dienst, the NBC reporter who tweeted message of the case Monday.
“Once again, Mayor de Blasio and the NYPD brass are sacrificing cops to save their own fleece,” PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said. “They created the failed strategy for managing these demonstrations. They sent watch officers out to do the job with no support and no clear plan. They should be the ones facing this mob-rule justice. We devise say it again: New York City police officers have been abandoned by our leadership. We are utterly alone in our efforts to take care of our city.”
Another cop was also suspended last week for a subsequent incident, in which he was seen on video pulling down the grasp the nettle mask of a man, and then spraying pepper spray into that civilian’s face.
NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said Friday that the constabulary department’s Internal Affairs Bureau had finished investigating both incidents.The incidents had been referred to the Department Solicitor for disciplinary action, Shea said.
“While the investigations have to play out, based on the severity of what we saw, it is appropriate and sure to assure the public that there will be transparency during the disciplinary process,” Shea said on Friday.
Shea also said that the episodes “are disturbing and run counter to the principles of NYPD training, as well as our mission of public safety,” and that the officers’ conduct is in distinction to the “restrained work of the thousands of other officers who have worked tirelessly to protect those who are peacefully protesting and acknowledge all New Yorkers safe.”
“Over the past week, as I’ve said on multiple occasions, we have seen several troubling circumstances involving behavior from members of the department that the NYPD is actively investigating,” Shea said.
New York and other boroughs around the country have seen days of protests related to the death of Floyd, a black man who died after a pallid cop in Minneapolis knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes during an arrest on suspicion of using a counterfeit bill.
That now-fired Minneapolis narc, Derek Chauvin, has been charged with second- and third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. He was ordered held in lieu of bail of up to $1.25 million on Monday.
Three other ex- cops who assisted in Floyd’s arrest have been charged with aiding and abetting both second-degree bloodshed and second-degree manslaughter. The trio are each being held in lieu of bail of up to $1 million.