The incident occurred in a shelter NY and there is a video that shows the violent scene. Faced with the images, thousands of Internet users have expressed indignation.
As reported The New York Times, City officials are investigating the confrontation that happened at the Queens shelteras the police used stun guns and fired several shots while the immigrant held his baby.
What happened?
In a video shared on social networks show how two police officers pinned Cordero against the doors of an elevator while he clung to his baby. Then one of them took out a gun and stabbed him. electric shockwith which he stunned him.
Due to the violent situation, another immigrant from the shelter took the baby and three police officers put Yanny Cordero against a table and the immigrant's wife against the ground. One of the uniformed officers punched Cordero twice in the face, they threw him to the ground and arrested him.
In the place screams could be heard saying that what was happening was a abuse and that human rights were not being respected.
The police version
According to what the police told The New York Timesthey received a call saying that an immigrant in a state of drunkenness was beating officials at the Queens shelter.
The authorities would have given him multiple warnings to give the minor to another person, but the man did not do so.
Cordero resisted and the violent scene occurred.
Lamb's version
Yanny Cordero denied that he was drunk and said that he had to work the next morning.
According to him, the fight started when he tried to bring dinner for his family. Upon entering the shelter, a shelter employee punched him in the face. However, he understood little because he could not communicate in English.
Furthermore, he declared to Telemundo News: “They gave me power so that I would let go of the child and so that I could bend my other hand to [ponerme] the handcuffs… Even so, with one hand cuffed, I held my child.
The immigrants were arrested and the mayor defended the police
The New York Times reported that after what happened, Yanny Cordero was accused of resisting arrest, violent behavior, disorderly conduct, acting in a manner detrimental to a minor 17 years old and obstructing authorities.
Yanny's wife, Andrea Parra, was also arrested by the police.
On the other hand, the mayor of the 'Big Apple' Eric Adams defended the Police.
“Those officers responded to a dangerous person and took appropriate action,” he said at a news conference.
New York police officers beat and used a stun gun on a Venezuelan migrant who was holding his 1-year-old son. He is the owner of this video @nytimes
The person recording asks: Where are the human rights?
What things not?#SomosCompromisoPatrio pic.twitter.com/v4XvFn4nAm— Stephanie M Arjona 🇻🇪❤️ (@StephGuaiqueri) March 13, 2024
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