2 NYPD officers suspended after videos of violence to protesters

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Both officers have been suspended without pay, and their cases have been referred to the Department Advocate for disciplinary action, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said.

of the encounter captured by Jason Lemon, a Newsweek reporter who tweeted the recording, quickly spread across social media. It had been viewed more than 14.1 million times by Friday evening.

At a news conference this week outside the Barclays Center near where the incident occurred, Zayer said she was shoved with such force that she flew out of her shoes, slamming her head onto the street.."But I am trying everything in my power to hold myself together for the people who are depending on me to speak on the situation.""He did this in front of his lieutenant and multiple other officers who watched me hit the ground.

Earlier Friday, Oren Yaniv, a spokesman for Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, said the DA was aware of the video and investigating the incident. Yaniv said the Brooklyn district attorney's office had been in touch with Zayer and her lawyer prior to Tuesday's news conference.

Representative Hakeem Jeffries said in a statement Monday, the only way to bring about meaningful change is to hold violent members of law enforcement accountable to the full extent of the law.There are good men and women in the New York Police Department and there are brutal ones," he said."We should embrace those police officers with the heart to respectfully serve and reject all others.

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