Editor’s Note: The video above originally aired onApril 30, 2024.
NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – Graduate student Christopher Holmes was sitting on the ground at a protest at Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall when an NYPD officer kicked him in the face, according to a new lawsuit.
He was disoriented and lying on the ground when another officer grabbed his hair and “violently slammed” his face into the ground, the 26-year-old graduate student described in the suit filed last week in Manhattan Supreme Court. His left orbital floor was fractured, he said.
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The lawsuit names the city, NYPD and Detective Michael Abbruzzese, who Holmes claims participated in his “violent” arrest during the high-profile pro-Palestinian protest on April 30, 2024. The city’s Law Department said it would review the lawsuit and respond in litigation…