{"id":202965,"date":"2026-04-20T03:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202965\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T03:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:34:09","slug":"new-video-shows-moments-leading-up-to-violent-wrongful-arrest-in-brooklyn-during-nypd-drug-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202965\/","title":{"rendered":"New video shows moments leading up to violent wrongful arrest in Brooklyn during NYPD drug sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"

New video shows the moments leading up to the violent and wrongful arrest of a Brooklyn man during an NYPD drug sweep last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The NYPD said Timothy Brown was arrested because he matched the description of a drug dealer’s associate, but they later said Brown was not the individual they were looking for<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Surveillance video shows wrongful arrest<\/p>\n

Surveillance video obtained exclusively by CBS News New York shows Timothy Brown walk into a liquor store last Tuesday on Hoyt and Baltic streets.<\/p>\n

As he comes down the aisle, officers then approach. There’s no audio, but last week, Brown said he was told, “You’re under arrest.”<\/p>\n

“I said, ‘Sir, why?’ I didn’t recall hearing why,” Brown told CBS News New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Video shows detectives attempt to get Brown’s arms behind his back.<\/p>\n

“I remember being grabbed and shoved, and he said, ‘Don’t resist,’ and I said, ‘I’m not resisting,'” Brown said.<\/p>\n

\"Timothy<\/p>\n

Surveillance video obtained exclusively by CBS News New York shows Timothy Brown’s wrongful arrest by the NYPD inside a Brooklyn liquor store on April 14, 2026.<\/p>\n

Photo provided<\/p>\n

The video shows Brown being hit repeatedly before he’s dragged across broken glass on the floor.<\/p>\n

CBS News New York showed the surveillance video to Darrin Porcher, a former NYPD lieutenant in the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau.<\/p>\n

He said because Brown didn’t attack the detectives, “it appears as if this is a level of excessive force<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Brown was initially charged with resisting arrest and obstruction, but those charges have since been dropped.<\/p>\n

Another man told CBS News New York on that same day,\u00a0he was also wrongfully arrested in the same operation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“He said it was attempt sale. I don’t have nothing to do with it. He violently pushed me up against the gate,” Ronald Maxwell said.<\/p>\n

NYPD members to be reassigned, sources say<\/p>\n

NYPD sources say on Monday, eight members of the Brooklyn North Narcotics Unit will be reassigned, including a captain, a lieutenant and six detectives.<\/p>\n

“The police commissioner may feel that the actions were inappropriate that were conducted by these officers, and there was a temperature within that unit and the supervisory element did not set the tone appropriately,” Porcher said.<\/p>\n

It’s not clear where those reassigned members will go, but they will remain on active duty while this internal investigation goes on.<\/p>\n

The two detectives involved in Brown’s arrest are on modified desk duty.<\/p>\n

The NYPD has said it has no record of the second wrongful arrest of Maxwell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New video shows the moments leading up to the violent and wrongful arrest of a Brooklyn man during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-202965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202965","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=202965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}