A founder of the Black Lives Matter group in New York was arrested after he spewed vile vulgarities, heapings of abuse, and serious threats at a police officer in court in the Bronx, threatening to “beat the sh-t” out of the officer over whom he towered in a shocking incident caught on camera at the court. That BLM leader is named Hank Newsome.
As background, Newsome was in court to watch a hearing on Tuesday, May 14. The hearing that Newsom attended was for a sergeant in the New York Police Department who has been accused of killing a man with a thrown cooler. That is NYPD Sgt. Erik Duran, who has been charged with second-degree manslaughter over the incident. Sgt. Duran threw a cooler at Eric Duprey, who was fleeing on a scooter after being caught dealing drugs.
In any case, the incident with Newsome shows him towering over a court officer and bellowing, “You think I’m scared of you? I’ll beat the s–t out of you. You must be out of your f–king mind.” Continuing, he yells, “You see how I’m all up on you? You’re a vagina … F–king vagina.”
Footage of the incident shows Newsome not just bellowing, but also grabbing and batting away the hand of a female officer as a group of police officers attempted to de-escalate the explosive situation. He was hit with three summonses for disorderly conduct over the caught-on-camera incident.
Following the incident, Councilwoman Vicki Paladino tweeted, in commentary about the incident, “If you are within reach of an officer’s firearm and behaving in an unambiguously hostile and threatening manner like this, you should be tased at the very least. Lethal force should not be out of the question either if tasers are ineffective and [the] situation escalates.”
She continued, “It is beyond absurd that our police have to put up with this. Showing even an ounce of deference to this kind of abject hostility only invites more, and makes the job that much more dangerous. Criminals used to understand that actions like this crossed a line and would lead to bad outcomes. Now they know there are no consequences so they push even further. It’s a very dangerous game, enabled by progressives who cheer the chaos.”
Watch the incident here:
Newsome infamously said, after Mayor Adams was elected, “If they think about going back to the old police methods, we are ready to take back the streets. There will be riots, there will be fire and bloodshed.” He continued, “We will be at his door. We will be at Gracie Mansion (the official residence of the mayor of New York), we will be in the streets, if you allow these policemen to abuse us. He further added, “I’m just saying there will be a natural response to aggressive oppression. We will react,”
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