If you interfere with a cop trying to arrest someone, they will do whatever they want to get you out of the way.
Tamani Crum learned that the hard way.
While the police were trying to arrest attempted murder suspect Elvin James in New York, Crum tried to intervene and started arguing with officer Kendo Kinsey. The officer didn’t like that, so he decided to remove Crum from the situation.
To do so, he pushed her away first, which led to her pushing him in the shoulder and then punching her in the face. Afterward, they put her in cuffs and removed her from the situation.
Bystanders can be heard screaming, “Why would you do that?” as she lies on the ground holding her face.
Officers then put Crum in handcuffs and escort her away.
The NYPD said in a statement that “while police were effecting the arrest multiple individuals on scene interfered by physically assaulting numerous officers. One officer sustained a minor injury to the head.”
Faith Harrell, 27, was also charged with assaulting an officer, resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration. A 26-year-old woman was given a Criminal Court summons for allegedly spitting at an officer, cops said.
James had been sought in connection to an attempted murder from earlier this month. During the arrest Tuesday, he was allegedly found to be in possession of a firearm and a controlled substance, the NYPD said.
Police charged him with attempted murder as a hate crime in the second-degree, criminal possession of a weapon, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a firearm for allegedly shooting at a group of people on West 163rd Street near Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard at around 10 p.m. on Aug. 12. It was not immediately clear why the attempted murder charge was classified as hate-based.
The cop seen delivering the punch in the video had not been disciplined as of Wednesday afternoon, according to an NYPD spokesperson.
Crum has been charged with assaulting an officer, resisting arrest, and obstructing governmental administration.
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