Let me put it this way: If these EMTs turned them in, it had to be damned excessive:
Two FDNY EMTs who had to intervene to stop four police officers beating a handcuffed patient on a stretcher have turned the cops in to authorities, the Daily News has learned.
The emotionally disturbed patient was punched multiple times in the face by the cops on July 20, according to FDNY documents obtained by The News. The cops only stopped when the EMTs bodily intervened, the report said.
The violence broke out when the patient spit at the Emergency Service Unit officers and swore at them. The officers responded by hitting him in the face, hauling him off the stretcher to the ground and then tossing him back on the stretcher, the EMTs said in written statements submitted to the FDNY.
It doesn’t appear that De Blasio is having much luck in de-militarizing the NYC police department. Why is that? Is that new police commissioner that he hired doing his job? If De Blasio is a Progressive then the moon is made of green cheese. It’s the Clinton effect.
NYPD is a huge organization, pretty much literally a private army for the 1%. After decades of militarization, accountability and sentiments of public service no longer apply. It would take military intervention to put them back in the business of ‘protect and serve.’