YouTube video shows NYC officer shoving cyclist

NEW YORK - A New York City police officer has been stripped of his badge and gun after a video posted on YouTube showed him body-checking a bicyclist who was part of a Times Square demonstration.

YouTube video shows NYC officer shoving cyclist

July 28, 2008

NEW YORK - A New York City police officer has been stripped of his badge
and gun after a video posted on YouTube showed him body-checking a
bicyclist who was part of a Times Square demonstration.

Witnesses say the incident occurred Friday at the Critical Mass ride, a
monthly protest of urban reliance on vehicles.

The video, posted anonymously, shows the officer standing in the street as
bikes whiz past. He moves toward the cyclist and violently knocks him to
the ground in front of crowds of people. ...

Police could not confirm witnesses' reports that the unidentified cyclist was arrested and released 26 hours later.

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