Women's claims of abuse by NYPD join a growing list of protest complaints
Destiny Strudwick and Yasmin Geurts were arrested, separately, in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood during what they say was a peaceful demonstration the night of June 4, about 90 minutes after a citywide curfew had taken effect.
Bystander video obtained and authenticated by The Washington Post shows Strudwick, who is black, lying facedown on the pavement outside a cluster of homes. She can be heard screaming for help while surrounded by multiple officers as they attempt to restrain her. Moments later, one of the officers fires a Taser at her torso, striking her in the abdomen.
Geurts, who is white, alleges that she, too, was roughed up by officers and that a police supervisor made sexually suggestive comments to her when she complained of pain from the zip ties used to lash her hands behind her back.
Paul Prestia, the women’s attorney, said Strudwick and Geurts “were well within their rights to peacefully protest” that night. “However, the audacity of these police officers to impose their force on them was not right.”
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