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2 NYPD officers suspended after videos of violence to protesters - NBC News
Jun 06, 2020 1 min, 13 secs

A New York City police officer who was seen on video shoving a woman to the ground at a George Floyd protest last week in Brooklyn has been suspended without pay.

Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said in a statement Friday night that the New York Police Department's Internal Affairs Bureau had concluded its investigations into the May 29 incident and a separate incident last Saturday in which a police officer was seen on video pulling down an individual's face mask and spraying pepper spray at him.

Both officers have been suspended without pay, and their cases have been referred to the Department Advocate for disciplinary action, Shea said.

In the last two weeks, New York police officers have repeatedly been accused of abusing protesters, including driving into a crowd and using excessive force to push them back.

On Wednesday, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams posted video on Twitter showing police officers in Brooklyn forcibly using their batons against peaceful protesters to get them to move down the street.

The woman who was filmed while shoved, Dounya Zayer, has said she was standing in the street protesting peacefully last Friday night when, without provocation, an officer walked up to her and told her to get out of the street.

Yaniv said the Brooklyn district attorney's office had been in touch with Zayer and her lawyer prior to Tuesday's news conference

"There are good men and women in the New York Police Department and there are brutal ones," he said

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