Video: NYPD cops brutally beat up Jewish homeless man
Surveillance video shows Ehud Halevi, who was allegedly resisting arrest for sleeping in synagogue, being beaten up by police officers
A surveillance video obtained and released by a local news site, crownheights.com shows a homeless man being beaten up by what appears to be a group of New York Police Department (NYPD) officers.
The man, identified as Ehud Halevi, was allegedly resisting arrest for sleeping in a synagogue outreach center last Monday (October 8).
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Local news reports said that the man had obtained permission to stay the night in the center, and had been sleeping in the space for a month. But the video shows the shirtless and shoeless man being beaten by two officers. The man was allegedly also pepper sprayed before being arrested.
On Monday (October 15) New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind called the alleged beating "unconscionable."
In a press conference, Hikind said the officers in the video should be suspended.
"These officers must be suspended if they have not yet been suspended. They could not be out there protecting the public. We need to be protected from them. And the New York City Police Department, the commissioner needs to do everything to make sure that these things don't happen," he said.
According to local news Halevi is being charged with assaulting a police officer, trespassing, resisting arrest and harassment.
He can face up to five years in prison for assaulting an officer but is currently out on bail.
NYPD has not yet issued a comment.
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