Cops bloodied an 84-year-old man and put him in the hospital Sunday when he jaywalked at an Upper West Side intersection and didn’t appear to understand their orders to stop, witnesses said.
Kang Wong was strolling north on Broadway and crossing 96th Street at around 5 p.m., when an officer told him to halt because he had walked against the light.
Police were targeting jaywalkers in the area following the third pedestrian fatality this month around West 96th Street.
Wong, who lives a block away, appeared to not understand the cop, the witnesses said.
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Looks to me like you have a greater probability of being seriously injured or killed by cops than by a car.
ReplyDeleteHow ironic though, police, attempting to judge whats best for someone else instead of letting the individual decide when it is safe or not to cross a street.
And there are still those that believe we do NOT live in a police state.
Mayor De Blasio. The Communist.
ReplyDelete"vision Zero" "We're not going to stand by and watch lives and families being torn apart" so we're going to beat 84 year old men like in a Communist police state.
I'll be surprised not to see him euthanized soon.