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New York Peace Officer Charged After Punching and Kicking Homeless Man in Shelter Lobby
New York has a problem: Its police have a penchant for brutalizing marginalized residents. After a verbal altercation at the Bellevue Shelter in Manhattan, on March 6, 2017, supervising sergeant Cordell Fitts and several other officers rushed and subdued a homeless man after he swung at Fitts in the shelter lobby. In surveillance footage made…