⚠️ WARNING :: POLICE VIOLENCE ‼️ THIS JUST HAPPENED AT 125TH ST IN HARLEM ✨ via @yxngtriton || THIS IS WHY WE ARE COMING OUT NOVEMBER 22 💥 #mta#nyc#NYPD#ftppic.twitter.com/LywDwq0cm3
— DecolonizeThisPlace (@decolonize_this) November 13, 2019
Police officers busted a man for selling candy in a Manhattan subway station Tuesday night in an arrest caught on video.
The footage shows cops attempting to cuff candy peddler Byron Shark, 26, while he was lying on the floor of the 125th Street No. 4/5/6 station.
Other straphangers can be heard yelling at the cops.
One shouts that Shark “didn’t do nothing.” Shark repeatedly tells the cops that they are “bugging.”
The officers decided to arrest Shark after they spotted him offering candy for sale and he repeatedly refused to hand over his identification, an NYPD spokesperson said.
He was hit with obstructing governmental administration and violation of local law charges, police said.
From Jan. 1 to Nov. 10, the NYPD arrested 22 people for unlicensed vending in the MTA system.
In the same period last year, 43 people were busted for the crime during the same period — nearly 49 percent higher than this year’s total.
