He wasn’t a victim. Like Michael Brown, he was a huge heavy guy with a lot of arrests, and for some reason, he suddenly became uncontrolable, even though this was not a major arrest. But it was his second citation for this particular violation... and the reason the police were there was because the other residents of the neighborhood had actually asked NYPD to shut down the cigarette selling activity, since it attracted low lifes and also a lot of the sellers were also engaged in drug activity.
The other black people in that neighborhood should come out and support the police. Except that they’ll probably end up dead, like the first black witness in Ferguson.