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Park Enforcement Officer Kicked in Face While Trying to Ticket Vendor: NYPD

 A man was arrested for kicking a Park Enforcement Patrol Officer in the face, police said.
A man was arrested for kicking a Park Enforcement Patrol Officer in the face, police said.
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CIVIC CENTER — A Park Enforcement Patrol officer was kicked in the face after trying to ticket a food cart vendor in City Hall Park, police said.

Two PEP officers were trying to give a summons to a food cart that didn't have a valid Parks permit on June 27 at about 1:30 p.m. As one of the PEP officers asked the vendor for his ID, another man, who was not in the cart, began repeatedly yelling: "Don't give them identification, don't give them shit."

The man, 29-year-old Ahmed Abdelhafez, continued to threaten the PEP officers, according to a police report, and slammed the food cart window shut when the vendor attempted to give over his ID.

When the PEP officers were trying to arrest Abdelhafez for obstructing governmental administration, he began to fight one of the officers, kicking him in the face.

Abdelhafez was charged with second degree assault, resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration, records show. He was released on $1,000 bail and is due back in court on July 2.

Abdelhafez's Legal Aid attorney did not immediately return request for comment.