“Stand back! Stand back!” the officer yells as a group of men square off against him on the East Broadway F train stop in Lower Manhattan. One of those who lunged at him fell to the tracks.
A lone NYPD police officer fends off a group of homeless men with his baton inside the East Broadway F train stop in Lower Manhattan. (Twitter)
A baton-brandishing cop faced off against a small army of aggressive subway vagrants, never pulling his gun — in a viral video that’s been viewed more than a million times on Twitter.
“Stand back! Stand back!” the officer yells as a group of men square off against him on the East Broadway F train stop in Lower Manhattan. One of those who lunged at him fell to the tracks.
The melee started Sunday night while the officer was working solo in a counter-terrorism “Omega” post in the subway station, police said. A woman approached him and said the men were harassing her.
When the officer confronted the vagrants, he found one of them laid out on the platform, intoxicated, police said. The intoxicated man is clearly visible in the Twitter video.