Posted on 12/24/2018 1:24:15 PM PST by simpson96
Patrolling a Manhattan subway station turned into a battle royale for a lone NYPD cop who was forced to fight off a group of hostile vagrants — one of whom tumbled to the tracks, according to a disturbing new video.
A 47-second clip of the encounter shows the uniformed officer holding a collapsible baton at the ready and repeatedly ordering the men to “stand back” as he backs up along a staircase.
The video — which was shot from behind the cop and posted online — then shows a man in a baseball hat step over another man sprawled on the platform and approach the cop, who kicks him in the leg and knocks him to the floor.
“Stand back! I don’t want to hurt you!” the cop says as two other men approach.
The cop kicks one of those men to the floor, but he immediately pops up and starts throwing punches, which the cop counters with smacks from his baton.
Two other men in tan jackets intervene to stop the violence — with one spreading his arms to hold the assailants back — but a man with shaggy hair ducks under and staggers toward the cop, then stumbles off the platform and lands on the tracks with a thud.
The NYPD said that other cops responded to aid their colleague, who was assigned to a solo post inside the East Broadway station on the Lower East Side.
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Not in NYC these days you don’t. Cop would be hanging from deBlasio’s office window today. Stiil it seems they dont train or use these new batons the way they used the rosewood. In those times each of these guys would have taken a shot to the solar plexus with the point of the night stick.
They’re clubs, sometimes called coshes or cozzes. In other words, baton, billy club, or whatever you want to call it. They’re weighted and can do serious damage.
I refuse to ever set foot in that socialist hellhole cesspool.
Mix vagrant illegal immigrants with meth heads and its the birth of the zombie nation.
Legalizing marijuana will help.
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