{"id":198369,"date":"2026-04-15T18:35:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198369\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T18:35:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:35:38","slug":"upsetting-tisch-places-two-nypd-cops-on-modified-duty-after-viral-video-of-brooklyn-liquor-store-beating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198369\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Upsetting\u2019: Tisch places two NYPD cops on modified duty after viral video of Brooklyn liquor store beating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"927\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ECD283BF-8E41-41D1-AFD8-4D2CE2B3C440.jpeg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"'Upsetting': Tisch places two NYPD cops on modified duty after viral video of Brooklyn liquor store beating 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch addressed the disturbing, viral video that showed two cops mercilessly beating a man inside a Brooklyn liquor store.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Dean Moses<\/p>\n<p>Two cops in <a href=\"https:\/\/amny.com\/brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn<\/a> caught on camera mercilessly beating a man inside a liquor store in a viral video have been placed on modified duty, <a href=\"https:\/\/nyc.gov\/nypd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch<\/a> said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s top cop made the announcement during an unrelated press conference on April 15 when she was asked about the footage that shows raining down punches on a man inside a business near the corner of Hoyt and Baltic Streets in Boerum Hill just before 4 p.m. on April 14.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DXKGqu4ERdh\/?igsh=eGU2MHVxaTdicW1w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> The video, which went viral on Instagram<\/a>, showed two plainclothes officers pummeling and wrestling with a man in an altercation that sent bottles of alcohol flying from shelves and blood left smeared over the ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s your badge number?\u201d Abelee Moran, who filmed the encounter, could be heard screaming in the video.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t resist arrest,\u201d one of the officers scoffed as the man lay motionless on the ground. The man was later arrested.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137843659\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-15-at-1.43.48-PM.jpg\" alt=\"two NYPD officers beating up man during arrest in Brooklyn\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1039\" title=\"'Upsetting': Tisch places two NYPD cops on modified duty after viral video of Brooklyn liquor store beating 2\"  \/>The video, which went viral on Instagram, showed two plainclothes officers pummeling and wrestling with a man in an altercation that sent bottles of alcohol flying from shelves and blood left smeared over the ground.Screenshot via Instagram\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want justice for this guy; I\u2019ve never in my life witnessed something so horrific,\u201d Moran said following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Tisch said on Wednesday that she saw the video and was appalled by the events. The two officers involved were placed on modified duty as the NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau conducts a full investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have seen it, I have been briefed on it, and this matter is under internal review by our Internal Affairs Bureau, and we\u2019ll have more to say about it as that investigation unfolds. But I understand the community interest in it, because it is an upsetting video,\u201d Tisch said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, criminal justice activists say they are up in arms over the beating.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we witnessed in that video is a blatant violation of human rights and a disgusting display of force,\u201d said Hawk Newsome, co-founder of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York. \u201cWe are calling for the immediate identification and firing of these detectives. We will not stand by while our community members are assaulted and bloodied in broad daylight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD did not immediately respond when asked for comment on why the assaulted man was arrested.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch addressed the disturbing, viral video that showed two cops mercilessly beating a man inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,79035,40967,9,24,63,103,35477],"class_list":["post-198369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-howt-and-baltic-streets","tag-jessica-tisch-nypd","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-viral-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}