NYPD Investigating Video Of Officer Punching Suspect. Legal Analysis With NY Criminal Defense Attorney David Schwartz on CBS 2 NY.

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0:00 NYPD launching an internal investigation 0:02 after video emerges showing officers 0:04 punching a man as they arrest him CBS 0:07 2's Jessica Moore is live in the Mont 0:09 Haven section of the Bronx with the 0:11 exclusive video for us today Jessica 0:15 will Christina Marie's the video shows 0:17 officers from the 40th Precinct 0:19 restraining a man while one of their 0:21 fellow officers repeatedly punches him 0:23 in the head and a warning before we roll 0:25 the story the video is difficult to 0:27 watch 0:28 video shows the violent arrest of a 0:31 black man by NYPD officers 0:33 it happened at Prospect Avenue and East 0:36 149th Street around 9 15 p.m on Sunday 0:40 April 16th you see the man in the white 0:42 shirt getting up in the face of an NYPD 0:44 officer in a matter of seconds four 0:47 officers surround him three officers 0:49
hold his arms down as one repeatedly 0:52 punches him in the head 0:53 before throwing him to the ground at 0:56 which point the female officer appears 0:58 to employ the unauthorized tactic of 1:00 leaning on the man's neck to make the 1:02 arrest the NYPD says officers were 1:04 conducting an investigation when 1:06
29-year-old Francis Romain approached 1:09 them quote aggressively and refused 1:11 multiple orders to back away when 1:13 officers tried to arrest him police say 1:15 Romaine choked a sergeant the police 1:18
officer that started punching this 1:20 individual in the face that's very 1:22 problematic but former Federal
1:24 prosecutor David Schwartz also says the 1:27 video doesn't tell the whole story you 1:29 can never quite tell from a video how 1:32 bad the situation is because you just 1:34 not in the Heat of the Moment these 1:37 police officers have really really hard 1:40 jobs too many people are quite frankly 1:42 are confronting the police the police 1:44 are losing their respect in this city 1:47 that is a very dangerous path 1:51 Francis Romaine was arrested on multiple 1:53 charges including assault on a police 1:55 officer and resisting arrest he has 1:57 since made bail and is out of jail 1:59 meanwhile the nypd's internal 2:01 investigation continues we're live in 2:04 the Mott Haven section of the Bronx 2:05 Jessica Moore CBS 2 News okay Jessica 2:07
thank you