A Manhattan subway station tussle between NYPD officers and two teens started as a fare evasion incident, but ended in a bloody brawl and arrests
The video shows the officer and teen fighting, with the officer holding handcuffs before the teenager starts throwing punch after punch at the officer's head. The officer fights back, before the younger man slams him into a subway gate and then places him into a chokehold on the station floor."From what I saw and other witnesses saw, the cop did shove him back there," said Matthew Rue.
"She's a female, he's a guy, they were just making sure she was OK," Rue said, adding that the officer then tried to physically push the teen girl out of the station. Police experts said that the teen, whose identity is being protected because he is a juvenile, is not exactly a stranger to crime. Sources told NBC New York he was arrested in 2021 for possession of a loaded gun.
"Arrested with a gun, he walks out. Fights with a police officer, he walks out. What's next, does he shoot someone? Kill someone?" asked former NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan, now a contributor for NBC New York.
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