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Breukelen Residents Protest Alleged "Brutality"
Barron said the noon press conference was in response to an incident on February 26 at about 5:30 p.m. when two officers, who were patrolling one of the buildings on East 105th Street, encountered 28-year-old Kayon Hard-ware, 24-year-old Billy David and another woman, whose name was not disclosed, in a second floor stairwell, asked them for identification and patted them down. The residents turned over their identification, but then a confrontation occurred and, according to police sources, the suspects became irate and one of the officers was either pushed or punched, and he and Hardware fell down the stairs, at which time she injured her right arm and hand. Barron said, however, that the wo-man was "dragged down two flights of stairs by her hair and she sustained serious injuries." Police officials, how-ever, said Hardware "continued kicking and spitting at the officer." Meanwhile, David ran to the nearby apartment of his grandparents, Charlie White, 89, and his wife Eloise, 84. Police officers pursued him and, ac-cording to Barron, they tried to "kick down the elderly couple's door," but Mrs. White let the officers in and they took David and Hardware to the Foster Avenue station house. Hardware was charged with resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and assault. David was charged with obstruction of governmental administration. Barron said he would not let Hard-ware or David talk to the press since they had been arrested and because he was afraid it could hurt their case. He asked that Kings County Dis-trict Attorney Charles Hynes dismiss the charges against the two suspects. "We are demanding that the charges be dropped and the police officers be brought to justice," he said. Prior to the press conference, the city councilman met with Captain Ralph Monteforte, commanding officer of the 69th Precinct, and other officers in a closed conference at the station house. Monteforte said he could not disclose details of the meeting because the case is under continuing investigation. At about 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Barron and a crowd of about 75 to 100 marched south on Rockaway Parkway in front of the subway station, with the city councilman rallying the crowd of followers to protest the treatment of what he said was "ordinary citizens." The crowd disbursed within a half hour with no incidents to report, witnesses said.
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