{"id":204133,"date":"2026-04-21T01:10:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204133\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T01:10:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:10:34","slug":"arrest-video-in-brooklyn-prompts-nypd-narcotics-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204133\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest video in Brooklyn prompts NYPD narcotics review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been nearly a week since a video was taken <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2026\/04\/15\/nypd-undercover-drug-operation-arrest-caught-on-video-under-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">showing NYPD detectives punching a man<\/a> inside a Gowanus liquor store, a man police later admitted had nothing to do with the drug sale they were investigating.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, activists sat down with Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch to push for accountability.<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, activists sat down with Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch to push for accountability following a use of force incident in Brooklyn<br \/>\n<br \/>The commissioner announced the department is launching a 90-day review of its entire narcotics division, covering policy, training, oversight and equipment<br \/>\n<br \/>Meanwhile, the officers seen in last week&#8217;s incident are still on modified duty, with both their badges and guns removed as this investigation plays out<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe officers should be suspended because why is it taking the investigation so long?\u201d activist Kevin McCall said.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner announced the department is launching a 90-day review of its entire narcotics division, covering policy, training, oversight and equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Among the changes, clarifying when detectives must activate body cameras during buy and bust operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need the apprehension team to be able to have body cams so you can have some type of justification for you using that particular force,\u201d McCall said.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD says the narcotics team tied to this incident has already been disbanded, with supervisors and detectives reassigned.<\/p>\n<p>The department says all of this was in the works before Monday\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The Detectives Endowment Association is standing by its earlier statement defending its officers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to get these bad officers, these bad actors, off the police force,\u201d activist and mother of Eric Garner, Gwen Carr, said. \u201cWe need these officers to stand accountable. We need transparency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCall also pointed to a separate incident over the weekend: a video from the South Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere an officer is seen punching a man right in front of a sergeant&#8230; I told her, \u2018You have to do something,\u2019\u201d McCall said.<\/p>\n<p>NYPD sources tell NY1 officers repeatedly asked the group to show ID after spotting them drinking with open containers.<\/p>\n<p>When one refused, resisting arrest and then pulling out taser prongs, officers escalated to physical force.<\/p>\n<p>The source says officers were used due diligence.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the detectives seen in last week\u2019s incident are still on modified duty, with both their badges and guns removed as this investigation plays out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been nearly a week since a video was taken showing NYPD detectives punching a man inside a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[387,25,98,100,99,388,75,9,24,12,63,308,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-204133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-app-public-safety","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-louis-finley","14":"tag-manhattan","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-public-safety","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204133","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=204133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}