New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has condemned two NYPD detectives who were captured on video brutalizing a man in a liquor store during an arrest in Brooklyn on Tuesday afternoon.
The detectives are part of the Brooklyn North narcotics division, according to their officer profiles on the NYPD’s website. They incorrectly believed the suspect had just made a drug sale because he matched a description, the NYPD told the Daily Mail.
Police said that the man was wearing similar clothes to a described dealer, but that he ‘was not charged with any offense related to the sale of narcotics because it was later determined that he was not involved in the drug sale.’
In the video, posted on Instagram by user Sinistratm, the detectives can be seen punching the suspect in the face and torso, pushing him into a shelf of wine bottles, dragging him by the legs and kicking and stomping him while he’s on the ground.
The wine bottles shattered and slashed the man’s leg, causing a deep cut that began bleeding profusely. A pool of blood can be seen growing on the floor in the video.
‘The violence used by NYPD officers in this video is extremely disturbing and unacceptable,’ Mayor Mamdani wrote on X.