Police Union Chief: Aliya Beating Was Justified
Late Wednesday afternoon, the president of the city’s police union said that the vicious beating of 21-year-old Ehud Halevy by two officers at the Aliya Institute last week “was justified.”
“Using force always appears to be severe but is necessary to arrest a culprit who resists,” said Patrick J. Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, a union which represents police officers. “The officer must use force to gain compliance and handcuff the offender. In this case, it is clear from the video that when the officer attempted to take the culprit’s arm he resisted by twisting and turning away.”
Haleavy was not seriously injured, but the officers charged him with assaulting them.
Rabbi Moshe Feiglin, director of the Aliya Institute, said Lynch’s comments are outrageous and that the charges against HaLevi should be dropped. “Almost every charge is baseless,” he said.
“And even if he was supposed to leave, he wasn’t supposed to get such a beating before leaving,” another rabbi added.
His attorneys insist the charges should be dropped.
WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!!!!!!
this is absolutely INSANE! TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!
awesome
this guy is seriously messed up to even think that THAT kind of force is considered necessary!!
no beating
I sure hope justic is served. No beating is needed! I worked at a developmentally delayed home before and they taught us self-defense c”v if we shld be attacked by clients. The method used was so noone gets hurt. No reason to beat, the police need to learn such method in arrest process. I don’t think Ehud shld had been arrested though. I hope this awareness being brought around will help all victim’s of police beatings. They need to rethink police and community relationships.
Leib Volf
There is a fine line between justified actions and excessive force. It is evident from what i see in this video that the offers used excessive force to aprehend the “ suspect ”.
Beyond the Suspects unwillingness to surrender to the officer i do not see how he assaulted or attempted to assault the officers.
He looks like he just woke up and still did not fully comprehend the situation this obviously did not play any role in the minds of the officers.
If this is called serving and protecting i for sure do not feel safe .It seems that the gov”t and Police force from the head downward has there own understanding of that witch they are taught and do not take into consideration the rights of the civilians.
This is the reason why so many americans today form a civilian militia so to protect out ammendment right wich are constitutional .
the police only consider their own rights and most of the time even from my own personal experience do not even read ppl their right when they do arrest us.
The only solution to this problem is to unite as a ppl no matter color ethnicity or race and make our voiced be heard .
do not stay quiet for this is what they want .
they will not shut us up .
Gd is with us and will not let us down .
he runs the world and they are a ppl under him as well
Leib Volf
In reply to number 3 : they will never use such passive methods because that will not get the point across to others that they have power as soon as we realize that they dont have power over us there system fails and we take over .
heres why this meshuchod is plain wrong
any trained officer knows that if the facts are contested & the individual is offering an alternative (in this case TRUE fact) clarification… the cop is trained to listen & seek to deEscelate the situation even if it means calling in a sergeant to clarify the facts! at 4am there was no urgent rush to skip the deEscelation protocol & begin pummeling him viciously,
…..,.
another violation by the cop was to attack the kid by assuming a boxing stance to the head!!
officers are trained extensively how to maneuvers ppl far bigger than themselves to the ground with minimal force & swift dead-leg maneuvers,
these moves are specifically taught to cops so that they have no need to resort to violence or brutality!
in many states the cop would be cited for not following procedure to not engage a distressed man who is clearly agitate & threatens to defend himself if he is attacked
yes the comaner is not gonna tolerate it
the commander of the 71st pct is outraged by the conduct & has made it clear that he finds no necessity for the cop rushing the situation which could have been kept calm & figured out after a few minutes of simple inquiry & patients
our commander is a role model of discipline & discretion & requires the same professionalism & respect from his force
i’m confident that the good ppl in our pct will not remain quiet or intimidated by the defenders of BULLY COPS!!
They Should Have Waited
The officers should have waited for the additional personnel to arrive before handcuffing him if this was a problem for the two officers alone. There was no imminent danger to anyone.
huh?
HOOOLD ON JUST ONE SECOND!
Is he wearing a helmet made from hair?!?
What the heck is that on his head?
Mendell
The cops only mistake was that they did not hit him over the head with a baseball bat so they could end the situation in seconds. You people don’t get it: the cops were called, HaLevi did not cooperate, they wanted to cuff him, he resisted arrest – so they took him down GENTLY.
R- Shlomo In Eretz Yisroel
IT WAS A HATE CRIME!
THAT PROVES
the proof is in the words
until today i was hopping that not all cops are beating people and that arresting them with false charges.
but the Patrick J. Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association. has gave the citizens of new york the proof that they are all like this.
this 2 officers shoulf face a federal grand jury for
lying: offering a false instrument for filing, falsifying business records, making an apparently sworn false statement, perjury and making a punishable false written statement. They also to be charged with official misconduct
Leib Volf
i apologize for the spelling errors made in my comment #4 so to protect our* and
from the head downward have their own*
it was late at night i was out of it
are you surprised by this??
Of course he will say that. His job is protect his PO, no matter how corrupt they are. Don’t get all bent out of shape over this Lynch fool I hear him on the radio whenever there’s another police shooting or whatever and he often struggles to justify his officers actions. But he supports them 100% even if they’re 100% wrong (I wish my boss did that.)
according to Police Academy Protocol
even if the report is accurate that Ehud threatened to defend himself against officers arresting him just for sleeping where he was supposed to!!
that threat does not constitute an immediate Threat/Danger requiring immediate beat down!!
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The officers should have waited for the additional personnel to arrive before handcuffing him if this was a problem for the two officers alone. There was no imminent danger to anyone.
its a test
Its a test for us. They are trying to see our strength
Charge the Police officers NOW
§ 175.35 Offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree.
A person is guilty of offering a false instrument for filing in the
first degree when, knowing that a written instrument contains a false
statement or false information, and with intent to defraud the state or
any political subdivision, public authority or public benefit
corporation of the state, he offers or presents it to a public office,
public servant, public authority or public benefit corporation with the
knowledge or belief that it will be filed with, registered or recorded
in or otherwise become a part of the records of such public office,
public servant, public authority or public benefit corporation.
Offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree is a class
E felony.
Let your attorney -fight- the police
The officer mishandled the situation, yes.
But the officer is a trained fighter — you can tell when he gets into his boxing stance. And the officer is a weight trainer — you can tell by looking at him.
Yet Mr. Halevi appears unscathed. I speak from experience and those with experience will relate — if that officer had not held back considerably — it would have been messy, C“V. Really messy. The officer took care not to be brutal. That is a fact.
Proper procedure is to force the resistor face first to the ground, to force his hands behind his back, and to cuff them.
Watch Ehud’s arms carefully, the moment before the officer gets into the boxing crouch. They, perhaps instinctively, for an instance, begin to move up-forward – which is an aggressive posture, usually signaling the onset of an attack.
The officer at that point felt threatened. Justifiably.
It’s unreasonable to expect officers to wait for back up every time a perp resists arrest. They truly have more important duties to focus on. All the blacks would resist, and we’d require numerous officer for each and every arrest.
Had there been two officers on the scene, this would have been a piece of cake. Police patrol in pairs for a reason.
The real problem is the female officer.
She is a waste of a uniform. Females do not belong in that role. The male officer was alone, and this should have never been the one on one situation it actually was. The officer simply wasn’t able to handle what turned out to be a over complicated situation. Reflects very poorly on NYPD training.
And they need to get the female officers off the street.
Yes, this is a case of excessive force. But it isn’t the ‘brutality’ it is being made out to be. The officer held back. He held back a lot.
It’s simply an officer who was overwhelmed by the situation. It was too much for him.
This very same comment–save for a paragraph I’ve added here and some editing–elicited the following response:
”You פ”צ had this have happened to someone you know, say a relative, you would write a totally different comment!”
My response is that this DID happen to a family member: a fellow yid. And that is why our response has taken a completely different tone. Which is justified. But our response has devolved into the absurd. If it HAD happened to someone I knew, I’d thank G-d that he is alright, and I’d teach him how to respond to an arrest: You comply — politely. And you say nothing at all until you consult with your attorney.
To 18
You guys missing the point
Lets not even talk about the beating
The police officers have committed a much bigger crime here
They falsely charged a man with an assault charge
This is a crime and for that the officer has to stand trial like any other criminal
He should have known better
agreed
dont resist arrest! you will have your time w a lawyer to voice your side!
just stupidity, what did you expect resisting arrest because this kid is jewish he would be treated differently than any other drunk vagrant?
pathetic
3Experts rendered this a BREACH of proto
after the guy insisted he was there 30days+ & the druggy who called is not authorized to be in-charge & that the officers chould check with the real ppl in charge,
rushing to arrest someone who was just asleep & not an immediate threat! this fact reveals the cops were just too eager for some action & ignored all possible opportunity to DeEscelate or verify with the bosses!
aliya has 30 days worth of footage (retreavable via any data recovery center)
proving that this guy had been sleeping there for over 30 days with permission!!!
clear departure of (deescalate)protocol
there was absolutely no urgent need to cuff him before checking with the ppl in charge!!
they didnt even make an attempt to make sure this guy was unAuthorised!
its irrational for cops to assume a homeless man is sleeping in a shelter??
disgusting T lied to the media
this was not a women’s holly place!! this was a shelter (sleeping area) for homeless young men ages 18-25
i wonder if the druggy who claimed (to the media) to be security will be charged for false statements trying to cover his…?
The rest of the story
How about the lying in the indictment, was that justified too?
Patrick J. Lynch
I guess that’s why they call this a Lynching….
wrong type of fun-game to play on Yomtov
we do need to say tehilim for the 911 caller! he really messed up by trying to have fun on yomtov!
Flanszreich
Like I said before… just a few minutes of waiting time to get a burley huge black police officer to take Ehud’s two arms behind his back and fartig. Game over. The video clearly shows approx. 48 punches, and 16 stick hits by the f-in lady copy. In Toronto – this would not have happend
too bad
you choose not to be an upstanding citizen and listen to authority, this is what you get, and btw, a few punches is nothing, the kid did not suffer any injuries, not even minor! so please…
dee dee for the people
Thats foul how they charged the poor defenseless jew asssault on an officer when it clearly shows the cop throwing wild jabs at him like if he was swinging back and the lady helping him jump him.Like all he needed to do was bodyslam him and handcuffed him not throw haymakers. And this is where my tax money is going to shame on you mayor bloomberg.
NO INJURIES???? = TRAUMATIZZZZZED!!!!!!!
even just watching this cruel cops ruthless rage!! has deeply scared & traumatized!!!!!!!!!!!
who was attacking who?????????
Ehud is being charged for attacking the COP???
looking at the video CLEARLY ehud’s FACE has kept hitting & attacking (beating up) the poor officers FIST!!!
to #20
I wonder if alcohol killed some of your brain cells.
First of all the whole issue is about excessive force regardless of the boy’s stance after he was awakened.All of you who keep focusing on the boy’s behavior and I see no threat especially when down, you are missing the entire point.Police do NOT have to punch and beat someone especially when they are NO THREAT.Get this through your head!!
shlomo as always with bad English
folks? what are you waiting for? head of trade union protect they member. it normal , don’t put any attention
Very angry
The city should form a criminal union and petric lynch will the president and will help lynch citisance
El
The city should form a union for the criminals and lynch will be the president and will help lynch citizens and get a medal from mr. Blooberg
Sal
The head of the union has just informed us that “using force always appears to be severe but is necessary”. Well, this goes to show that every arrest in which the police “claim” resisting, ends up in such “apparent but necessary” force. We simply don’t get a recorded video.
It is well known that if the cops think someone is resisting arrest they have a field day and beat the person without mercy. After all they could claim that it just “appears” and is “necessary” without getting in trouble.
Shame on them.
Who and why?
Who called the police and why? And what was the understanding of the police as to why they were called to be there?
Hmm....
Why don’t both sides take a look at the tape from the very beginning, then have an honest conversation. Are both parties capable of being honest grown ups? HONEST grown ups! Hmm…. what a concept.
crown hts mom
What do you expect from the head of the PBA??
Police officials, union ,administration, etc would do well to address the issue of overly aggressive and emotional policing. Doing so, and revising the way officers are trained and held accountable for their behavior, will result in a better police force,less incidents of this nature, and from a PR standpoint, much,much better press.
IMPORTANT LESSON
ONE VERY VERY IMPORTANT LESSON WE CAN AND SHOULD LEARN FROM THIS INCIDENT IS MAKE SURE YOU ALWAYS HAVE FILMING CAPABILITIES AVAILABLE AND IN ANY CONFRONTATION WITH POLICE MAKE SURE TO FILM IT ALL!!!1