A handcuffed homeless person accused of jumping the subway turnstiles kicked a New York Police Department (NYPD) officer onto the subway tracks, according to a recent video.
The New York Post reported that the officer broke her wrist after falling on the tracks, but was otherwise unharmed.
The incident took place at the 125th street subway station Thursday evening as two officers were trying to arrest the unhinged homeless man, who began screaming at the police, begging them to injure him.
“I can take the pain girl… put more pressure on it…you’re not breaking my leg good. Break it!” the man says in the video.
“Break the neck…put your weight on it,” the man goes on to say as he kicks the female officer off of him and then kicks her into the face.
When the officer tried to grab his legs again, the man forcefully booted the cop in the thigh, sending her flying onto the subway tracks.
The cop was able to get right back up again before a train came, and she also was lucky enough to have missed the third rail.
Joaquin Santiago, who took the video of the incident, told the Post the encounter started when the homeless man allegedly spat in one of the cops’ faces.
“The officer could have easily been killed, and as a result of this assault, the officer suffered a serious injury,” an NYPD spokesperson said. “Any assault on a New York City Police Officer is an assault on society.”
Police arrested and charged Anquando Johnson, 25, with felony assault on a police officer, reckless endangerment, and theft of services. Authorities held Johnson for evaluation at Harlem Hospital.