Two New York City narcotics detectives are off their regular beats for now after a video showed them pummeling a man in a Brooklyn liquor store—who police later acknowledged wasn't the drug suspect they were after. The clip, filmed Tuesday inside the BK Wine Depot in the neighborhood of Cobble Hill, shows plainclothes officers punching, kicking, and dragging 46-year-old Timothy Brown as bottles shatter and blood streaks along the floor, per the New York Post. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch called the footage "deeply disturbing," saying Internal Affairs is investigating and that the officers' guns and shields have been taken while they're on modified duty.
Brown told CBS New York he'd simply gone in to buy wine when officers grabbed him, slammed him into glass, and dragged him across broken bottles. Police say officers had just completed an undercover crack buy nearby and believed Brown matched the description of a second suspect, per the Post. Mayor Zohran Mamdani blasted the officers' conduct on X as "extremely disturbing and unacceptable," adding, "Officers should never treat a person this way." Police unions are accusing the mayor of rushing to judgment.
Charges of resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration were later dropped, and Brown was never charged in the underlying drug case. He says he's grateful to be alive and wants justice. The man who filmed the arrest, meanwhile, calls the incident "disgusting and uncalled for," per CBS. "It was racist. It was unjust."
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