Video Shows NYC Cops Body-Slamming Latino Street Vendors

*This comes only a week after NewsTaco published a Feetin2worlds story about the obstacles faced by NYC immigrant street vendors. Most of those street vendors are Latino. VL

By Andrew Kirell, Mediaite

Another day, another potential NYPD abuse of power under investigation.

According to the indispensable ANIMAL NY, the New York Police Department’s Internal Affairs Bureau has launched an investigation after video emerged of a Sunday police scuffle with street vendors in the mostly-Latino neighborhood of Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

In the below video — originally posted to Facebook — police are seen confronting the vendors, informing them it is 6:00 p.m. and thus time to close up shop. That deadline presumably marked the legal end of the neighborhood’s annual 5th Avenue festival. After some words are exchanged, the encounter descends into violent chaos, with officers body-slamming and arresting multiple young men, while several onlookers also attempt to take on the police.

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[Screenshot courtesy of umrek kurde/YouTube]