Plainclothes NYPD officer’s alleged punch on “12-year-old” black boy, has been caught on video. In the controversial clip, a plainclothes NYPD officer appears to punch a “12-year-old” boy, who was being arrested by four other cops in uniform. The video of the incident has gone viral and many are wondering, why did the the NYPD officer punch the child numerous times, if he was not resisting arrest? The answer is not clear, but the boy is actually 16 and has been arrested numerous times in the past.
A “plainclothes NYPD cop’s punch on a 12-year-old” boy is making headlines, altough it’s barely half of the story. On December, 17, 2014, a woman by the name of Sarah Doneghy, posted a video on YouTube that showed three teenagers being arrested in the streets of Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York.
In the clip, a young man dressed in grey was being restrained, held down by three officers, one female and two males. Out of nowhere, a plainclothes NYPD cop showed up and started to punch the boy multiple times in the side.
Several female bystanders, including Doneghy and another one, who stated that she is lawyer, started yelling at the cops. One could be heard saying, “he is 12, he is 12.” Another person screamed:
“Get off of him, stop, he is not an animal and why are you treating him like that, this not a war, if you want to fight, go to war, WTF? I can’t believe he just did that after everything that’s happened.”
The “12-year-old” could be heard saying that he did not do anything, he was just walking down the streets. The lawyer confronted the female officer by asking her:
“Would you arrest a little blonde kid walking down the road? Or would you wait for the person who made the complaint about being hit with a cane to come by and identify them?”
Sarah Doneghy shared the following description along with the clip:
“This happened today on my way to the post office. The kids were 12. They had supposedly pushed one of their classmates down. However when the victim was asked, he said those weren’t the guys. They were still taken away. 12. Years. Old.”
Things got heated between the bystanders and the NYPD cops, with one them asking her to stop filming and to move from the sidewalk. In a statement issued by the NYPD, it was revealed that the suspect is actually 16, he has been arrested in the past, but he was not the person, who assaulted the classmate. The statement read:
“Officers say the teen has a history of arrests. He and two others were arrested for assaulting someone who walked with a cane. The incident is under review. And the allegations have been referred to our internal affairs bureau.The suspect was arrest was two others for assaulting another identified person with a cane.”
A “plainclothes NYPD cop’s punch on a 12-year-old” video is below.
