It was nonlethal force to effect arrest on a person resiting arrest.
Being unable to even frame what happened and why is a big step toward colassal ignorance.
They didn’t initailly take him down in order to arrest him, they took him down because he resisted the initial arrest.
You are willfully skipping that step in the process of what happened.
You are skipping the fact that in NYC, business owners have to pay protection to the government and the mafia and the cops work as enforcers for both. It’s un american to bow before either.