NYC Council Speaker calls for assault charges against NYPD officer seen pushing woman to the ground

NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson is calling for assault charges against the NYPD officer seen in this video pushing a woman to the ground resulting in a trip to the ER:

Update: Got her permission with a fuck yeah. The cop pushed her so hard at Barclays & she flung back. She is tiny. Now she’s in the ER after a serious seizure. I’m waiting for updates but have to wait outside because of COVID-19. Please keep my protest sister in your thoughts. pic.twitter.com/MqV0QJ0D8h

— Whitney Hu 胡安行 (@whitney_hu) May 30, 2020

This took place near the Barclays Center in Brooklyn:

I’m on my way to the hospital from Barclays. A young 20-year-old girl got shoved by a NYPD officer for no reason and she flew back and hit her head. She blacked out and had a violent seizure. We have a video. Will update with her consent.

— Whitney Hu 胡安行 (@whitney_hu) May 30, 2020

He called it “brutal and unacceptable”:

This officer needs to be charged with assault.

Hard to watch. Brutal and unacceptable. https://t.co/zL2MHcEwCI

— Corey Johnson (@CoreyinNYC) May 30, 2020

The woman in the video was identified as Dounya Zayer:

This was me, and I want to make one thing clear to all the people that are commenting lies below this video. I did NOT spit in this officers face. I was wearing a face mask. He told me to get out of the street and then immediately threw me out of the way. https://t.co/349TZijtD8

— Dounya Zayer (@zayer_dounya) May 30, 2020

How did we go from a peaceful protest to what transpired tonight?

We failed to de-escalate. The NYPD should be easing tensions, not pepper spraying state legislators and shoving peaceful protestors.

Tonight was a failure of leadership. 2/2

— NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson (@NYCSpeakerCoJo) May 30, 2020

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NYC Council Speaker calls for assault charges against NYPD officer seen pushing woman to the ground

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