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socialismartnature:

Harlem: 26 cops arrest & beat one unarmed Black youth, slam him to ground, then stop legal filming by witnesses.

This was May 13 at 3:30pm in the 135th St station of the B/C. Note the one arresting officer repeatedly telling the other to “relax.” The young man being arrested puts his leg up just so they don’t slam his face into the wall. When I turned my camera to catch the officers streaming into the station, two of them came behind me and one officer (Mancebo?) pushed me out of the station and would not let me turn around. Afterwards, I counted twelve police cars around the station.

I understand the point of this video, but I have to wonder what compelled the man at 2:39 to step out of his house with 2 different shoes on with two completely different colors and of course why the whole police rushed in on one guy like he has multiple weapons or something.