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Saturday, July 04, 2015

Video of NYPD cop boxing with hostile suspect under review

A knife-wielding man wasn’t going down without a fight — and an NYPD cop was there to give it to him.

A video released Thursday shows two plainclothes officers in Harlem trying to arrest Saykou George, who has two outstanding warrants and a record of ­assault.

But as George apparently resists arrest and tries to stalk off, one of the cops has to resort to putting up his fists to keep him from fleeing along Frederick Douglass Boulevard.

Meanwhile, the other officer, a woman, tries to grab the hulking George and slap cuffs on him, but he keeps resisting, according to the video.

Amid tense police-community relations — and with the bystander taking the video shouting over and over, “I got everything on camera” — the male cop keeps up the fight.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Now cops are boxing, the audacity!

Anonymous said...

That man is lucky he isn't dead. Darwin must have been on break.

Anonymous said...

Delay until back up gets there. Saying "you're not gonna arrest me" is a challenge you will lose.