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Video footage captured four New York City police officers tackling a Black to the ground after he was accused of illegally selling candy on a subway platform. Last week, Bryon Shark, 26, was captured on the ground of the subway station while the officer tried to handcuff him according to The New York Post.In the video posted on Twitter, witnesses can be heard yelling at officers demanding them to stop while Shark is on the ground.

“He did not do nothing,” a woman yells. Another person is heard shouting, “Y’all n—as is bugging, bro.”

The NYPD Transit responded to the accusation of police brutality with a tweet, “Our officers took this man into custody after he failed to comply and refused to provide identification as they attempted to issue him a summons for a transit violation. He was arrested and charged with Obstructing Governmental Administration.”

The activist movement Decolonize This Place responded to the NYPD Transit tweet, “ Increased police presence and ramped issuing of fines is an unacceptable war on the poor, largely IBPOC (Indigenous, Black and People of Color). It’s also an MTA predatory revenue generator like traffic tickets to pay bills. We demand 1. NYPD OUT OF THE SUBWAY 2. FREE TRANSIT 3. END OF VENDOR HARASSMENT” During an interview with NBC New York, NYPD Transit maintained that Shark resisted when officers tried to arrest him for selling candy and forcing them to bring him to the ground. Decolonize This Place led a protest earlier in the month, that almost a thousand people jumped the turnstile entrances to the subway in defiance of the police crackdown, according to hyperlocal news website Gothamist.

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