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An NYPD officer is shown repeatedly punching a man in the head as three other cops hold the suspect down in a video posted on the internet Thursday.
Cops began struggling with the man as they tried to escorted him from the South Ferry subway station in Manhattan’s Financial District after he was caught smoking a cigarette, police said.
The suspect, Alex Lowery, 50 — whose record includes a 2017 arrest for weapons possession for putting a knife to a woman’s neck at a Harlem subway station — was smoking at the station around 6 p.m. Tuesday when officers approached him and said he would be ejected, police said.