Community activists are furious over a new video that appears to show Brooklyn police roughly detaining a gay man and pepper-spraying him while hurling homophobic slurs at his friends. The incident took place at approximately 4:00 am on Sunday, June 2 when an NYPD officer reportedly accused Josh Williams, a 26-year-old waiter who lives in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, of public urination outside Brooklyn’s 79th Police Precinct. Williams and his roommates, Tony Maenza and Ben Collins, claimed he was innocent of the claim, at which point the officer “snapped.” “He rolled his eyes and sort of snapped, twisting an arm behind my back and slamming me against a car,” Williams said. “I was able to ask him what was going on, and he slammed me against the car and pepper-sprayed me. I was blinded and disoriented.”
Posted on: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 23:05:31 +0000
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