Brooklyn, NY – A newly released video shows two NYPD cops punching and beating a local hip-hop artist with their fists and batons inside a Brooklyn grocery store while the man’s hands are meekly raised in a surrender pose.
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NYDAILYNEWS.com (http://bit.ly/1HRhORl) reports that the video, taken from behind the counter of the Roslin grocery store on Bainbridge St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant on July 7, clearly shows 24 year-old Thomas Jennings, who raps under the name “Sen Tekk,” attempting to surrender before being pummeled and eventually handcuffed by the officers.
According to Jennings’ attorney, Amy Rameau, police tracked down and confronted Jennings after a nearby pizza parlor reported that two men made off without paying for a $3 order.
Jennings reported he needed five stitches to close a gash over his eye in the incident involving NYPD officers Lenny Lutchman and Pearce Martinez.
On Tuesday, reps for both Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson and NYPD Internal Affairs offices reported that investigations are underway into the matter.
I smell a massive lawsuit and my tax dollars being sucked up for a city payout.
Why doesn’t the city write him a check now for $5.9 million and get this over with?
Thugs!
The headline should read “Man Hits Lottery in E NY”.
Dirty cops.
Rachel W. is both right and wrong when she state that she smells a massive lawsuit and tax dollars sucked up for a payout. Her tone suggests that it would be such a payout is wasteful. Indeed it is, but the only way police brutality (and this was a surefire case of it , if I ever saw one)`will end is if taxpayers feel the pinch and cry out , “Enough! We’d rather spend the money on getting a better class of constabulary than the thugs that presently constitute our police force.”.
I don’t think we Jews get it. Those cops who are beating that unfortunate black man are just doing what they wish they could be doing to Jews.
A police force run amok is a danger to the entire society, not merely to their current chosen victims.
It’s quite obvious that he is resisting arrest and refusing officers asking him to put his hands behind his back while they are trying to handcuff him.
Police are doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing to anyone who resists arrest.
The video shows this clearly.
First class ROTZCHIM, I’m waiting for 1, only 1 police officer to be indicted, or the security ROTZCHIM rikers island, yes we do need police to guard us and our streets, but not to have it out on when they’re having a bad day,
The guy in the video is resisting arrest. The cops are telling him probably to put his hands behind his back and he is not complying. These thugs know they’re on video and all they can do is act right. He acts as of being inocent. He’s far away from inocent and to all those smart people that know exactly how to take down a person that might have a weapon on him. Please come forward and show how to do it. Show how to risk your life for a business owner calling for help that he’s being robbed.
Reminds me of the days my Rebbe in classroom beat me up like this and then used a leather belt on my behind ….
Is there a form of life lower than “hip hop artist?” He resisted arrest and deserved what he got. I doubt the good cops even knew he was a tribal “singer,” if they did, they would probably give him more…