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Video shows NYPD struggling to arrest man as onlookers taunt them

by Kerry Picket

 | August 25, 2019 05:19 PM

 

A Republican New York state assemblyman retweeted a video that depicts four New York Police Department officers struggling to arrest a man resisting to get into a police car.

Mike Reilly disseminated the video, which shows the officers calling for assistance as onlookers demand the cops call an ambulance for the man, who is under arrest.

According to the New York Post, the recorded incident surfaced hours after NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill claimed that a police slowdown when performing routine work would not occur in response to Officer Daniel Pantaleo’s termination from the force. Reilly, a former NYPD lieutenant, points to the video as proof that NYPD cops are slowing down their responses to routine calls in the wake of Pantaleo’s firing.

“In that video, you hear the public who were filming it. They actually said, ‘Call him an ambulance.’ They all realize that isn't what's supposed to be done there. He is physically resisting getting put into a police car," Reilly told the Washington Examiner. "So the arrest has not been fully effective at that time. The person is in custody, but he can’t be transported from there.” 

Following the firing of Pantaleo, the officer involved in the 2014 death of Eric Garner, the president of the Police Benevolent Association, Patrick Lynch, called on “all New York City police officers to proceed with the utmost caution in this new reality, in which they may be deemed 'reckless' just for doing their job."

"We will uphold our oath, but we cannot and will not do so by needlessly jeopardizing our careers or personal safety," Lynch added.

Other videos have surfaced in New York City recently showing law enforcement officers attempting to make arrests while the public has attempted to interfere in the process or the suspect has resisted. 

Reilly placed the blame on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the top brass at the NYPD. “I think, unfortunately, the actions of the mayor truly indicate what their insight is and how they feel towards law enforcement,” he said. 

He added, “Everybody wants to jump on a political bandwagon and that's not what should be done. No. There should be a time and a place where we allow investigations to take their course, and we should be guided by the results and the outcomes.”