The officer was found guilty in a department trial in the 2019 beating of a woman inside a holding cell in the Bronx’s 44th Precinct.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2022.An NYPD officer has been fired after allegedly assaulting a jailed homeless woman who insulted and spit on him, according to newly released police documents.
The confrontation began when the woman verbally insulted the officer, allegedly calling him a racial slur and a “bald f--k,” before spitting in his direction from behind the bars of the cell. The officer, who was 38 years old at the time and weighs approximately 230 pounds, “did not merely strike her once; rather, he violently beat the prisoner, without regard to the injury he could be inflicting,” Adler wrote.
He initially served a one-month suspension, but was allowed to return to the force, collecting a paycheck in each of the last three years. Following a department trial that began this year, he was found guilty of improper use of force, wrongfully spitting at a prisoner, and making inaccurate entries in his report.
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