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NYPD Investigates Bronx Violent Arrest Caught On Video
By: Dean Meminger
A video posted online of a Bronx teen being beaten and arrested by police
officers last week has led the young man's family members to raise questions
about the officers' actions, and NY1 has learned the Bronx district
attorney and NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau are investigating the incident.
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A video posted online of a Bronx teen being beaten by police officers last
week has led the young man's family members to raise questions about the
officers' actions.
Jatiek Reed, 19, was arrested on Thursday on charges of robbery, possession
of marijuana and crack cocaine and assaulting a police officer on East
168th Street in University Heights.
The video shows Reed being pushed onto the ground and receiving multiple
blows from batons, punches and kicks from officers.
According to the criminal complaint, after the arrest an officer needed
stitches to close a cut on his nose.
However, family members said Reed received a lot worse.
"They refused to take him back to the hospital and they wouldn't give him
no medicine or anything. He is sitting there telling me his head is hurting,
he doesn't feel good," said Schuan Reed, Jatiek's mother. "He has staples
in his head, he has staples in his arm, his eyes were black, his whole
entire back is black, blue, purple."
Reed's mother, brother and friend went to the local police precinct to ask
about the arrest, and they were arrested as well. A criminal complaint says
the family members attacked officers, but they deny that.
Jatiek Reed's father, Bernard Walker, said the charges were trumped up by
police in order to cover up the severity of the beating.
"This so-called assault on an officer, which we all know never took place.
Even... if it had happened and if he hit this officer, no one ever saw
that. And it still doesn't call for the abuse that they put on my son," said
Walker.
Another friend who recorded Jatiek Reed's arrest said he wanted to help but
feared he would be beaten as well.
Who deserves to be beat like that? Obviously he was trying to put his hands
behind his back," said the friend. "How is he going to put his hands
behind his back if you keep beating him? He's trying to block his face."
"A sergeant was there allowing all of this abuse to take place in his
presence," said Walker.
The Bronx district attorney and the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau is
investigating the actions of the police officers.
Jatiek Reed's family also hired a civil attorney and plans to sue the city,
the New York City Police Department and all the officers involved in the
recorded incident.
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