Days after a video emerged on social media of a New York Police Department officer savagely punching a Black teenage girl, the cop has been suspended without pay.
Politicians have commented on the incident, saying, “violence against our children is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.”
On Tuesday, Jan. 3, officers, who were stationed at a fixed dismissal post near the school, were called to break up an after-school fight between several teen and pre-teen girls in Staten Island around 2:40 p.m. near the Edwin Markham Middle School.
The New York Daily News reports two sisters, 12 and 14, got into a scrap with a different 14-year-old girl after school near a bus stop outside the school. Matters escalated when the police officer tried to break it up and handcuff the 12-year-old.
Multiple cellphone videos captured by bystanders show the officer, Nicholas Scalzo, approached by Kyonna Robinson as he tries to handcuff Robinson’s 12-year-old sister. When…
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