THE BRONX — The NYPD is investigating a video that shows several officers pinning a man to the ground, while one hits him, in Mott Haven on New Year’s Eve morning, police officials said.
A woman riding on a city bus recorded video showing three officers holding a man down in front of a bus stop on East 149th Street near Cauldwell Avenue while one of them repeatedly strikes him in the face, which was first reported by Gothamist.
The NYPD said in a statement “the matter is under internal review.”
It was not immediately clear why officers initially stopped the man or if he was charged with a crime.
The man could be heard screaming at the officers while they tried to subdue him, though it was not clear what he was saying.
A witness on the bus could be heard saying “he hit him in his face” and his “face is bleeding.”
The officers eventually lifted the man from the ground after handcuffing him and held him against a police van, the video shows.
The bus then pulled away before the video ended.
“Please explain to me why the officer kept bashing his face like that,” wrote Alexis Jasmin on Facebook after posting video of the incident.
