Calls for accountability over a violent arrest in Brooklyn that was captured on video by bystanders are colliding with sharp pushback from police union leaders, as elected officials — including Mayor Zohran Mamdani and chair of the City Council Committee on Public Safety, Bronx Council Member Oswald Feliz — denounce what they describe as disturbing police conduct while labor leads urge restraint.
Two NYPD narcotics detectives have been placed on modified duty after a widely circulated video showed them punching, kicking and dragging a man named Timothy Brown inside a Cobble Hill liquor store — a man police later acknowledged was not the suspect they were seeking.
This item is available in full to subscribers.
We have recently launched a new and improved website. To continue reading, you will need to either log into your subscriber account, or purchase a new subscription.
If you have an active digital subscription, then you already have an account here. Just reset your password, if you've not yet logged in to your account on this new site.
If you are a current print-only subscriber, and want access to our website,click here to view your options for changing you subscription level.
Otherwise, click here to view your options for subscribing.
Please log in to continue |