A video surfaced Thursday of an NYPD officer using force to protect his female partner from a hostile-suspect resisting arrest.
Police officers had stopped Saykou George whom, according to the New York Post, they had seen carrying a blade in plain-sight. After having his ID checked by the officers, George — who had two outstanding warrants and a history of violence — began to grow increasingly belligerent, eventually lashing out at the female officer when she tried to place him in handcuffs.
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According to police commissioner Bill Bratton, Internal Affairs is currently reviewing the video of the Wednesday arrest, but in his, “preliminary review of [the video], [he] saw nothing inappropriate with the officers’ behavior.”
George was slapped with a variety of charges, including resisting arrest, assaulting a police officer and criminal possession of a weapon.
[h/t: New York Post]