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<h6 class="postid-15749715"><span style="color: #4d3f3f;">NYPD Officer Francisco Garcia faces disciplinary charges over ‘George Floyd-style’ incident with a bystander while he and two other cops were enforcing social distancing on May 2</span></h6>
<h6 class="postid-15749715"><span style="color: #4d3f3f;">He was suspended pending an Internal Affairs Bureau probe after he was caught on camera violently subduing a bystander in New York&#8217;s East Village </span></h6>
<h6 class="postid-15749715"><span style="color: #4d3f3f;">Garcia was seen with his knee on the neck of Donni Wright who is lying down with his face pressed to the pavement during the incident </span></h6>
<h6 class="postid-15749715"><span style="color: #4d3f3f;">Wright was observing Garcia and two other cops arrest a couple while enforcing social distancing, when Garcia zeroed in on him taser drawn, before raining punches on Wright and laying him out on the pavement </span></h6>
<h6 class="postid-15749715"><span style="color: #4d3f3f;">After the savage beat down Garcia hauled off 33-year-old Donni Wright, on charges of assaulting a police officer, menacing and resisting arrest</span></h6>
<h6 class="postid-15749715"><span style="color: #4d3f3f;">The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office later deferred prosecuting Wright on those charges</span></h6>
<h6 class="postid-15749715"><span style="color: #4d3f3f;">Two other cops are expected to face disciplinary charges over the incident </span></h6>
<h6 class="postid-15749715"><span style="color: #4d3f3f;">Garcia according to court records, has been sued seven times over the last six years, costing the city more than $200,000 in payouts</span></h6>
<h6 class="byline-date"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone wp-image-347704" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Francisco-Garcia-seen-with-his-knee-on-the-neck-of-Donni-Wright-1.jpg" alt="Francisco Garcia seen with his knee on the neck of Donni Wright 1" width="692" height="907" /><strong>NYPD Officer Francisco Garcia seen with his knee [right], on the neck of Donni Wright who is lying down with his face pressed to the pavement during the May 2 incident</strong></span></h6>
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<div class="wp-caption-text featured"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">A member of NYP police department cop will face misconduct charges for putting his knee on a suspect’s neck — the same move that led to the controversial police death of George Floyd in Minnesota.</span></div>
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<p>The cellphone video of the incident showed plainclothes Officer Francisco Garcia slapping and punching 33-year-old Donni Wright over an alleged social-distancing violation after cops broke up a group near the corner of East Ninth Street and Avenue D, on May 2.</p>
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<p>“The internal investigation is recommending discipline for several members of the Department involved in the incident. Charges are expected as early as next week,” the NYPD said in a statement Friday.</p>
<div id="attachment_347702" style="width: 333px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-347702" class=" size-full wp-image-347702 alignleft" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Francisco-Garcia-2.jpg" alt="Francisco Garcia 2" width="323" height="276" /><p id="caption-attachment-347702" class="wp-caption-text">Should an out of control officer like Garcia remain on the force?</p></div>
<p>Officer Francisco Garcia [left] was suspended pending an Internal Affairs Bureau probe after he was caught on camera violently subduing a suspect in the East Village on May 2.<br />
Cellphone video shows Garcia, who was wearing street clothes, wielding a Taser as he shouts at bystanders as other cops confronted two men for allegedly violating coronavirus social-distancing rules near East 9th Street and Avenue D.<br />
“Move the f–k back right now!” he was recorded saying.<br />
“What you flexing for? Don’t flex!”<br />
Garcia then holstered the Taser and grabbed an onlooker, wrestling him down and punching him in his head before using his knee to pin the man’s neck to the sidewalk, the video shows.<br />
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office later <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/05/04/manhattan-da-defers-charges-in-violent-nyc-arrest/">deferred prosecution</a> of the subject of the police brutality, Donni Wright, on charges of assaulting a police officer, menacing and resisting arrest.<br />
In addition to Garcia, at least two other cops are expected to face disciplinary charges over the incident, according to a source familiar with the matter.<br />
Garcia has been sued seven times during the past six years, leading to more than $200,000 in settlements by the city, records show.</p>
<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-347710" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Francisco-Garcia-4.jpg" alt="Francisco Garcia 4" width="773" height="868" /><strong>The horrifying incident was recorded on a cell phone camera by onlooker as they pled with cops to stop beating the victim</strong></h6>
<p>Following the May 2 incident, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said there were “certainly some tactics that I was not happy with.”<br />
“I think we got to be better and that’s what was most troubling to me,” Shea said.<br />
“I would also like to remind you that de-escalation takes two, unfortunately.”<br />
Garcia’s union, the Police Benevolent Association, didn’t immediately return a request for comment.</p>
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NY cop Francisco Garcia, two other officers face disciplinary charges over ‘George Floyd-style’ knee on the neck incident with a bystander while they conducted arrest on NY street
