Yanny Cordero claims there was a misunderstanding with staff at the shelter which led to him being hit with a stun gun.
NEW YORK -- CBS New York has obtained video of a police interaction with an asylum seeker at a Queens shelter.The man said officers used a Taser on him while he was holding his 1-year-old child.The NYPD said it all started because the man was threatening staff, but the man said what happened late Friday night was a misunderstanding, adding shelter staff thought he was trying to bring food up to his room, which is against shelter rules.
Cordero said he was trying to explain with a translation app and held the phone up, but added he felt the security guard may have misunderstood and felt threatened because Cordero said the guard then punched him.At around the same time, he says, the wife came down with the kids and then she handed him the 1-year-old and that's when officers arrived.He said he didn't feel anything from the stun gun, but his son did.
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