{"id":268114,"date":"2026-06-16T01:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/268114\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T01:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:47:12","slug":"former-brooklyn-police-officer-sentenced-to-90-days-in-jail-for-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/268114\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Brooklyn police officer sentenced to 90 days in jail for assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Brooklyn police officer was sentenced to 90 days behind bars after pleading no contest to assault charges.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Stein was accused of repeatedly punching a woman in the head after she spat on him last September.<\/p>\n<p>Former Brooklyn Police officer pleads no contest to misdemeanor assault charge<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news5cleveland.com\/news\/local-news\/oh-cuyahoga\/former-brooklyn-police-officer-pleads-no-contest-to-misdemeanor-assault-charge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Former Brooklyn Police officer pleads no contest to misdemeanor assault charge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The incident was captured on body camera footage, and Stein was fired because of it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had a long, rewarding career, and I lost that career over a split second. I reacted to a vile act, and I wish I could take it back,&#8221; Stein said.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the only legal trouble Stein is involved in, as he is facing a civil rights lawsuit in Cuyahoga County.<\/p>\n<p>It claims he, the city of Brooklyn, its former police chief and five other officers violated the civil rights of a Maple Heights man by failing to investigate Stein and helped him cover up alleged crimes.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news5cleveland.com\/news\/local-news\/investigations\/brooklyn-police-allegedly-ignored-red-flags-helped-cover-up-officers-hit-and-run-according-to-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brooklyn Police allegedly ignored red flags, helped cover up officer&#8217;s hit-and-run, according to lawsuit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We Follow Through<\/p>\n<p>Want us to continue to follow through on a story? Let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Brooklyn police officer was sentenced to 90 days behind bars after pleading no contest to assault&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,44893,44894,63],"class_list":["post-268114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news5cleveland","tag-northeast-ohio-news","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268114","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=268114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}