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Teen Breaks Officer's Elbow During Arrest While Making Rap Video: Police

By Janet Upadhye | November 6, 2014 7:40am
 A 16-year-old was arrested after he refused to leave the Ingersoll Houses basketball courts where he was filming a rap video, police said.
A 16-year-old was arrested after he refused to leave the Ingersoll Houses basketball courts where he was filming a rap video, police said.
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FORT GREENE — A 16-year-old boy was arrested after he broke the elbow of a police officer who told him to leave a basketball court where he was filming a rap video, police said.

The teen was shooting the video in the courts of the Ingersoll Houses at 12:20 a.m. on Oct. 4 with a group of more than 20 people when police arrived and told them to leave because the courts close at 10 p.m., according to police.

The teen refused to leave and struggled with a police officer who was attempting to handcuff him, NYPD said.

He then fractured the officer's elbow, police said.

The teen, whose name DNAinfo is withholding because of his age, was charged with resisting arrest, unlawful assembly and disorderly conduct, police said.