A Subway Rider Confronted Unmasked Police Officers. They Kicked Him Out.
20 October 2021
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20 October 2021
A New York City police officer grabs a male commuter by his jacket and pushes him through an emergency exit door at a subway station in Manhattan, video posted to social media shows. “You’re being disruptive,” the officer tells him. The man in the 35-second video clip — which has garnered more than one million views and ushered in a fresh wave of criticism of the police — said in an interview that the confrontation erupted when he asked the officer and his partner to put on masks. Andrew Gilbert, 27, said he had just gotten off the train on ...
A Subway Rider Confronted Unmasked Police Officers. They Kicked Him Out.
Andrew Gilbert said he repeatedly asked two officers to wear masks in accordance with M.T.A. and Police Department policy. He was eventually pushed out of the station.