NEW YORK — Surveillance video exclusively obtained by CBS News New York Investigates shows NYPD officers repeatedly punching a man working at a Brooklyn homeless shelter last February.
Jason Salters says officers attacked him when he was just trying to follow orders to do his job.
It happened on Feb. 5, when he was working as a shift supervisor for a nonprofit hired by the city’s Department of Homeless Services, or DHS, to run the Renaissance Shelter in Crown Heights.
“You wouldn’t beat a dog like that”
Salters said NYPD officers showed up in the early morning looking for a domestic violence suspect who had been staying at the shelter.
He says the police didn’t have a warrant so, according to an internal DHS report, he called a director of social services for the city, and put her on speaker phone.
“She said, in front of the sergeant and officers, ‘No Jason, absolutely not. Do not let them in. They do not have a warrant?’ I said ‘No, ma’am.’ ‘Absolutely not, do not let them in,'” Salters said.