Cop Probed For Slamming Car Door Into Brooklyn Protester

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — Another NYPD cop faces disciplinary action after a caught-on-video viral moment of violence against a George Floyd protester.

A May 29 video shows an officer in a moving police car open a passenger side door into a protester.

The car keeps moving as the protester is flung to the side in the video posted by New York Times reporter Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs.

"Police car just drove by demonstrators on Classon Ave in Brooklyn -- some of whom had been throwing cement -- and opened passenger side door into a protester," Bogel-Burroughs wrote.

The video of one of many depicting police violence amid and after a once-peaceful at the Barclays Center. Protesters reportedly first threw water bottles at massed NYPD officers, prompting an ever-escalating series of confrontations.

It devolved into a cloud of NYPD-wielded pepper spray, swinging batons and arrests before spreading out into surrounding streets. Some protesters, as noted in Bogel-Burroughs' tweet, threw cement at officers and burned police vehicles.

For their part, police officers were seen shoving protesters and other acts of seemingly-indiscriminate violence that played out in videos and social media posts.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea, while broadly defending police "restraint," said individual officers would face discipline.

Shea on Tuesday — amid criminal charges being filed against another officer for actions that night — announced internal affairs investigators probed the car door incident and referred an officer to the Department Advocate for disciplinary actions.

"As part of our obligation to provide accountability when officers fail to reflect the high standards we set, the NYPD is taking action regarding an episode in recent days that raises serious concerns," Shea wrote in a statement. "While the investigation is still ongoing, there is no doubt in my mind that based on the seriousness of what we’ve seen in recent days, transparency is critical."

Despite Shea's promise for transparency, he didn't release the officer's name or any other identifying information, such as precinct. The officer is on modified duty, he wrote.

Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch on Tuesday decried what he called an "anti-police environment" amid the protests over police brutality and George Floyd's killing.

Mike O'Meara, president of the New York State Association of Police Benevolent Associations, said the NYPD is the "most restrained police department in the country."

"In the black community mothers are worried about their children coming home from school without being killed by a cop," he said. "What world are we living in? It does not happen."

A Civilian Complaint Review Board report published this month found about 90 percent complaints about police misconduct against youths involved young people of color.

In one instance, NYPD officers arrested and handcuffed an 8-year-old boy for disorderly conduct after he was seen running with a stick, the report states.

"The mother of the 8-year-old complained that her son was not treated properly and that his dreams of being a police officer were over," the report states.