We have to demand these police officers are prosecuted. At the very least they should be both fired.
Timothy Brown said he had just gotten off work and was in the shop to buy some wine when he was approached by police.
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“He said, ‘You’re under arrest,'” Timothy L. Brown said. “I remember being grabbed and shoved and he said, ‘Don’t resist.’ And I say, ‘I’m not resisting.’
The nearly eight-minute video circulating online shows Brown, a home health aide and security guard, being repeatedly punched by two NYPD detectives inside the business on the corner of Hoyt and Baltic streets in Boerum Hill on Tuesday, just before 4 p.m.
The Police Department confirmed the authenticity of the video and said the detectives were looking for a drug dealer’s associate who wore green shorts. They spotted someone nearby matching the description — in this case Brown, who was wearing green shorts — and tried to arrest him.
Police later determined Brown was not involved in the drug deal.
He was not charged with a drug offense, but was charged with resisting arrest, police sources said. He was initially given a desk appearance ticket and was released, police said. However, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez told CBS News New York the charge would be dropped sometime Wednesday.