WATCH: Cops Not Wearing Masks Beat Man, Threaten to Arrest Others “For Not Wearing a Mask”
Matt Agorist
TheFreeThoughtProject.com
May 6, 2020
New York, NY — Violent cops in New York appear to be loving the COVID-19 lockdown and the apparent pass it gives them to dole out beatings to anyone who doesn’t obey their every dictate. There is no shortage of videos of this violence either.
A 20-year-old Brooklyn man was beaten and arrested this week because he was less than six feet away from his friends. According to the arrest report, Stephon Scott and three others were stopped by police “for failing to social distance. All were within six feet of each other.”
When Scott refused to be put in handcuffs for doing nothing other than standing next to his friends, the cops violently took him to the ground and began punching him in the head. Officer Michael Amello then jumps up, pulls out his baton and begins threatening the other teens standing on the steps, yelling at them to “go inside!”
The group of cops then threaten to arrest the bystanders “for not wearing a mask,” which was entirely hypocritical. As the Gothamist points out:
He subsequently threatens to arrest the witnesses for “not wearing a mask,” as another officer, who is not wearing any face covering, approaches the group. None of the three officers are properly wearing masks, which were not covering their noses during the incident captured on video.
Scott was charged with resisting arrest, obstructing government administration, unlawful assembly, and disorderly conduct, according to NYPD Spokesperson Detective Arlene Muniz. Another 15-year-old at the scene was also charged with menacing. The NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau is investigating the arrest, Muniz said.
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