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A Black man from New York City was accused of assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest when he bit off and swallowed a cop’s fingertip has been acquitted by a jury. The video of the incident shows that Ainsley Johnson was on the ground being brutally attacked by four NYPD officers.

Last week Johnson, 34, was released after being in prison for seven months in time to meet his fiancee Christine and his newborn son Casey.

“He”s very happy,” Johnson’s lawyer, Michael Biniakewitz, told New York Daily News. “His baby was born on Friday and he was released on Monday so he was able to bring his son home.”

Johnson was arrested on April 6 after he allegedly busted the doors and windows of a 46-year-old man’s 2003 BMW car and destroying a mailbox in Brooklyn. Then when Johnson was brought to the prescient he was charged with criminal mischief, and allegedly bit off the fingertip of the officer who was trying to re-cuff him, officers said.

Johnson bit down on the middle finger of Officer Michael Hawk’s left hand snapping the tip off the cuticle of his f according to police.

According to the police, Johnson chomped down on the middle finger of Officer Michael Hawk’s left hand, snapping the tip off the cuticle. They couldn’t find the lost part of Hawk’s finger but they later found out that Johnson swallowed it.

In the video, four officers were seen throwing Johnson on the ground and jumping on him until he screams for help.

Biniakewitz added that at that time, Johnson was trying to show the cops a wound on his leg so he took his socks off and he was not resisting.

“It’s as clear as day that (Johnson) wasn’t resisting and cooperative when the officer threw him to the ground,” Biniakewitz argued. “When he was on the floor, his hands were underneath him, but, with four cops sitting on him, prosecutors wanted the jury to believe my client was able to purposely move his face to the officer’s hand to bite him.”

He added, “Every cop on cross admitted that his hands were behind him.”

Johnson, who has nine previous arrests including two sex offenses, is considering filing a civil rights lawsuit.

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