A New York City policeman is under review after a viral video seemed to show him shoving a female protester on Friday night.
A spokesperson for the ny City local department (NYPD) told Capitol Hill that the department was conscious of the video which the incident was under internal review.
NBC ny first reported the interior probe, which followed a violent protest near Barclays Center over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
During a Saturday news conference , ny City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) called the clip “absolutely unacceptable.”
Despite other protesters engaging in violent behavior, de Blasio said that this protester being “arbitrarily thrown to the bottom doesn’t reflect our values.”
“The NYPD has got to do better. We cannot see a video like that. There’s no reason for a video like that,” the mayor said. “It corrodes trust. … there’ll be accountability.”
The mayor said there would be independent reviews of the video and the other questionable footage that emerges from the protest.
Jason Lemon, a senior reporter at Newsweek, recorded the video and posted it on Twitter. it’s since gone viral, with quite 9.2 million views as of Saturday morning.
A group of police is seen walking down the middle of the road . One officer is seen pushing the lady with two hands, throwing her back and causing her to land on the concrete.
He is then seen walking away because the woman remains on the bottom .
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The encounter was also filmed by another spectator, Twitter user Whitney Hu, who said she went with the lady to the ER .
A woman identified as Dounya Zayer came forward on social media and said she was the lady seen being pushed within the video.
In clips posted from what appears to be a single bed , Zayer said she had a seizure after hitting her head which she has been diagnosed with a concussion.
“In no way was I aggressive towards this policeman , and that i didn’t even get in his physical space,” Zayer said. “He was walking in my direction, told me to maneuver , and since I didn’t move out of his way in time, he threw me out of the way.”
Corey Johnson (D), the Speaker of the ny council , involved the officer to be charged with assault.
Ritchie Torres, a Democrat running for Congress in New York’s 15th District, also involved the officer to “lose his badge.”
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Demonstrators clashed with police on Friday outside Barclays Center within the ny City borough of Brooklyn over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man , during an arrest in Minneapolis earlier in the week .
NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said that roughly 3,000 people were protesting at various locations which quite 200 arrests were made.
One person was arrested for the attempted murder of 4 cops after allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail into a marked cruiser .
