A video showing an NYPD officer apparently knocking out a Brooklyn teen surfaced on Wednesday — the same day footage of another cop allegedly stealing more than $1,000 from a Brooklyn construction worker went viral. 
 
 The officer stopped 17-year-old Marcel Hamer on June 4 in Clinton Hill on suspicion of smoking marijuana, police said. 
 
 The video begins showing Marcel Hamer lying on his back, shouting in pain with the cop's left foot planted on Hamer's stomach. He then pleads repeatedly with the cop, saying he wasn't smoking marijuana. 
 
 "You wanna get f----- up?" the plainclothes cop threatens in the opening moments of the 54-second video. 
 
 "Mister, it was just a cigarette, sir," Hamer says. "It was just a cigarette." 
 
 The knockout strike isn't caught on video but the sound of a punch is clearly heard in the recording. 
 
 "Yeah, get it on film," the cop barks to the bystander after the blow while he tries to cuff Hamer. 
 
 "Turn around," he instructs the seemingly unresponsive teen. Hamer's apparently limp arm is seen falling onto the pavement as the cop tries to cuff him. 
 
 "You knocked him out! He knocked Marcel out!" one of the teen's friends repeatedly shouts. 
 
 Marcel Hamer lies prone after being struck unconscious. Plainclothes police officer subdues and arrests Marcel Hamer, 17, after accusing him of smoking marijuana as he was walking home from school on June 4 down Gates Ave. with friends near Waverly Ave. in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. This is the moment when the cop allegedly knocks out Hamer. Plainclothes police officer subdues and arrests Marcel Hamer, 17, after accusing him of smoking marijuana as he was walking home from school on June 4, 2014 down Gates Avenue with friends near Waverly Avenue in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. This is the moment when the cop allegedly knocks out Hamer. 
 
 Police said the officer who struck Hamer has since been suspended. Another officer who was also there has been stripped of his gun and badge. 
 
 The clip was first obtained by the Brooklyn Paper. 
 
 Another video, obtained by the Daily News, shows an officer allegedly removing $1,300 from Lomard Joye's pocket during a stop-and-frisk in Coney Island. Joye was then pepper sprayed when he demanded his money back. 
 
 When Joye's sister, Lateefah Joye, tried to get the cop's badge number, she too was pepper sprayed. 
 
 The NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau is investigating both incidents. 
 
 With Joseph Barracato 
 
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 A police officer apparently knocked out a Clinton Hill teen with one blow after stopping him for smoking a cigarette, hitting him so hard he now has neurological problems, according to the boy’s family. 
 
 Lawyers for Marcel Hamer say he was walking home from a store down Gates Avenue with friends near Waverly Avenue around 3:30 pm on June 4, when the plainclothes cop jumped out of a blue van and accused him of smoking marijuana. He and his friends started to run, then stopped, Hamer told a registered nurse at Brooklyn Hospital Center. The cop caught up to him, pushed him to the ground, and Hamer hit his left arm on a planter rail, after which he couldn’t move it, he said, according to medical records. 
 
 A video of the incident picks up with Hamer lying in the gutter, pleading with the officer to lay off as the cop holds him by the right hand, which according to Hamer’s account in medical records is handcuffed. The undercover orders, “Turn around.” 
 
 “Mister, it was just a cigarette, sir,” Hamer says, without rolling over. 
 
 Teens, apparently friends of Hamer’s, hover nearby and the officer turns to one, still holding Hamer, and threatens him. 
 
 “Do you wanna get f----- up?” the cop says. 
 
 The moment of the apparent knockout blow is partially obscured in the footage, but the officer appears to punch Hamer in the face with his left hand, prompting protests from Hamer’s friends. 
 
 “Yo, you wiling!” one teen says to the officer. 
 
 “Yeah, get it on film,” the cop retorts. 
 
 The officer then repeats his order for Hamer to “turn around,” but Hamer is lying completely prone. 
 
 “You knocked him out!” a female friend yells. 
 
 “Wake up, Cello,” another friend says. 
 
 A second man, apparently also an undercover officer, runs over and helps the first cop put cuffs on the apparently unconscious teen, and at one point reaches into his back pocket. Hamer lies unmoving in the 45 seconds between the punch and the video’s end. 
 
 “You going to jail on that one,” another teen says. 
 
 Hamer came to when paramedics were lifting him onto a stretcher and complained of blurred vision, a headache, and being unable to properly move his left arm, medical records show. He was handcuffed in his hospital bed and officers sat beside him during treatment, according to the records. 
 
 It is unclear what happened in the moments leading up to the punch, but Hamer’s family is calling for the officer to be criminally prosecuted. 
 
 “If what happened on this video was reversed and Marcel assaulted this officer in the same exact manner, Marcel would be prosecuted, and this officer should be prosecuted for what he did,” said attorney James Ross, who is handling the family’s civil suit. 
 
 Hamer, now 17, has suffered from headaches, dizziness, and memory loss since the incident, his mom said. 
 
 “He is always complaining of headaches and he cannot remember things,” Mary Hamer said. “He used to be pretty sharp, and now I am helping him.” 
 
 Retired state Supreme Court judge William Thompson is also a member of the legal team working on the case and said the incident is a symptom of a larger cultural problem in the NYPD. 
 
 “It is pervasive now, throughout the department,” said attorney William Thompson. “It is indicative of an attitude in the police department that is, ‘Them against us. Let’s do whatever we want.’ ” 
 
 The attorneys declined to release the name of the officer responsible. Hamer was charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct and pleaded guilty to a violation, according to Ross. 
 
 The NYPD would not comment on the incident other than to say that it is under investigation by the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau. 
 
 The law firm released the video the same day as another piece of footage surfaced showing officers in Bedford-Stuyvesant punch and pistol-whip an unarmed teen who has his hands raised in surrender. Police arrested the teen for marijuana possession, according to a report by DNAinfo. 
 
 On Oct. 2, police Commissioner Bill Bratton vowed to clean up the NYPD at a conference of department commanders. 
 
 “We will aggressively seek to get those out of the department who should not be here,” he said, according to reports. “The brutal, the corrupt, the racist, the incompetent.” 
 
 Updated 9:00 am, October 13, 2014: Context added from medical records. Updated to reflect that Hamer was walking home from a store, not from school, as indicated by his recounting of the incident to a registered nurse. 
 
 ©2014 Community News Group ||||| NYPD Officer Punches Brooklyn Teen With His Gun View Full Caption DNAinfo 
 
 BROOKLYN — Two NYPD officers are under criminal investigation after punching and using a gun to bash a 16-year-old suspect in the face despite the teen raising his hands to surrender, according to a video obtained by DNAinfo New York. 
 
 The surveillance footage obtained exclusively by “On The Inside" shows the two officers catch up to marijuana suspect Kahreem Tribble after a brief chase in Bedford-Stuyvesant. 
 
 As the teen stops running, one officer throws a punch at his face. Then, as the suspect raises his hands, the other officer hits him with his gun. 
 
 Tribble was arrested for possessing 17 small bags of marijuana and disorderly conduct on Aug. 29. At his arraignment, he pleaded guilty to a violation and was released with cracked teeth and bruises. 
 
 The officers from the 79th Precinct are now targets of a criminal investigation conducted by the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau and Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson. 
 
 “What’s depicted on this video is troubling and warrants a thorough investigation,” Thompson told “On The Inside." 
 
 According to court records, law enforcement sources and the video, the encounter started in front of 1311 St. John’s Place at 2:20 a.m. when three anti-crime officers spotted the 6-foot-2 teen peering into the window of parked mini-van. 
 
 When the officers got out of their car to approach Tribble, he allegedly tossed away a small black canvas bag and took off running. The officers — one with his gun drawn — gave chase, concerned that the suspect had a weapon, sources said. 
 
 Shortly thereafter, Tribble slows down and stops and appears prepared to be arrested. But an officer, identified as Tyrane Isaac, rushes up to him and takes a swing at his head. 
 
 The teen ducks the blow and then can be seen retreating — with his hands up — to a storefront gate. 
 
 Officer David Afanador — his gun drawn — then catches up and rushes straight to Tribble, hitting him in the his face with his gun, breaking a front tooth and chipping another. 
 
 On the video, Afanador then holsters his weapon and retraces his steps to retrieve the canvas bag, leaving Isaacs to put the cuffs on Tribble. 
 
 But before he does, Isaac punches Tribble again and pushes him onto his stomach. 
 
 The video ends with Afanador waving the bag in front of Tribble’s face before smacking him with it. 
 
 A third officer, identified as Christopher Mastoros, can be seen taking no action to help Tribble. 
 
 Police Commissioner William Bratton has seen the video and was angered and embarrassed by it, a source said. 
 
 “Clearly, Commissioner Bratton has seen the video and reacted very aggressively in the sense of saying there have to be consequences when anything is done the wrong way," said Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday. He said he hadn't personally seen the footage, but was told what it showed. 
 
 “I see these videos as another piece of information that we need to use to improve the relationship between police and community and in many cases to heal the relationship between police and community.” 
 
 Sources say officials were particularly concerned about Afanador using his gun on the teen because it could have accidentally fired — injuring or killing him, another officer or an innocent bystander. 
 
 Afanador has been suspended without pay. Isaac was placed on modified duty, stripped of his badge and gun. 
 
 Both officers have been on the force for nine years and now face possible criminal charges and dismissal, sources say. 
 
 Mastoros, also a nine-year veteran, could face a departmental charge for failing to stop his colleagues, sources say. He is not part of the criminal probe. 
 
 Each of the officers has two other cases lodged against them by defendants alleging false arrest or being victims of excessive force, according to court records. The cases were not connected. 
 
 Mastoros made news two years ago when he was credited with helping save the life of a partner, Kevin Brennan, who survived being shot in the head after chasing a gunman into a Bushwick building. 
 
 The video is the latest to surface since the viral video of the tragic “choke hold” death of Eric Garner. Last week, Bratton told a confab of top NYPD officials that he was committed to rooting out bad apples engaged in brutality and corruption. 
 
 Sources say Internal Affairs was tipped off to the Tribble video a few days after his arrest. Roughly two weeks ago, IAB supervisors brought their findings to Thompson to determine if criminal charges are warranted. 
 
 Patrick Lynch, the police union president, said the tape does not tell the entire tale. 
 
 “As usual, the video fails to capture the offense that resulted in police action or the lengthy foot pursuit that culminated in the arrest," he said. 
 
 "Situations like this one happen in real time under great stress. It’s very easy to be judgmental in the comfort of an office while sitting in front of a video screen." 
 
 Tribble’s lawyer, Amy Rameau, told "On The Inside" that her client was heading home from a friend's apartment when the officers chased him. 
 
 "My client was minding his own business and they decided to chase him for no reason," she said. "Their account is concocted to justify what they did, to cover their asses, to legitimize their criminal conduct." 
 
 She said in addition to suffering broken teeth, Tribble was bleeding from his mouth and "begging for medical attention," but was only sent to Interfaith Hospital when other officers at Central Booking saw him. 
 
 She said she plans to file a federal civil rights lawsuit against the NYPD and the officers. 
 
 The clash has left the teen "petrified" of police and "traumatized and fearful that they will come after him again." 
 
 Additional reporting by Trevor Kapp ||||| New video has surfaced of an especially harsh arrest by police on the streets of New York City.So, did police go too far?"It's just a cigarette!" Marcel Hamer is heard saying in the video.The video begins with Marcel Hamer already on the ground but still struggling with the plainclothes cops trying to arrest him on suspicion of smoking pot."Mister it's just a cigarette sir!" Marcel Hamer said in the video.And then, you can't see it but you sure can hear what sounds like contact with Hamer's head. Enough to lay him out cold on that Clinton Hill corner."He knocked out! Yes, he knocked out! You knocked him out!" people are heard saying in the video.Four months later, attorneys for Hamer filed a notice of claim against the city for $5 million. They claim the now 17-year-old is a victim of excessive force."He's been complaining of headaches, he's been repeating a lot of things, he's different," said Mary Hamer, Marcel's mother.It's the second piece of video to emerge just Tuesday involving dramatic arrests in Brooklyn. Another clip , from nearby Bedford-Stuyvesant, shows two officers punching a different drug suspect, who'd led them on a chase."I see these videos as another piece of information we need to use to improve the relationship between police and community and in many cases to heal the relationship between police and community," Mayor de Blasio said.The police department already suspended one of those officers, from the 79th Precinct; the other for now is off the street.This time, it's cops from the 88th Precinct who are under the microscope.The NYPD will say only that it's referred the case to internal affairs.
– Marcel Hamer was walking home from school on the afternoon of June 4, smoking a cigarette, when a plainclothes police officer got out of his car and accused the now-17-year-old of smoking pot. A video of the Brooklyn incident picks up when Marcel is already on the ground, the officer apparently trying to handcuff him as the teen pleads, "Mister, it was just a cigarette, sir." As Marcel's friends protest from the sidelines—"Do you wanna get f---ed up?" the cop asks one at one point, then "Yeah, get it on film"—the officer appears to punch Marcel in the face, knocking him out, the Brooklyn Paper reports. The cop continues to order Marcel to "turn around," but the teen is apparently unconscious, and his friends start pleading with him to "wake up" while telling the cop, "You knocked him out." Eventually, another man—apparently a second undercover cop—helps handcuff Marcel as he lies unmoving on the street. The teen's family says the officer hit him so hard he now has neurological problems, including headaches, dizziness, and memory loss. Lawyers for Marcel say that though the officer suspected him of smoking marijuana, he was only charged with disorderly conduct, New York reports; it's not clear what transpired between the officer and Marcel before the friend started recording, but Marcel's family is calling for the cop to be prosecuted. The family has also filed notice of a $5 million claim against the city, alleging excessive force, ABC 7 reports. The NYPD says the incident is under investigation. The video was released the same day as another one showing Brooklyn cops pistol-whipping an unarmed 16-year-old who had his hands in the air; he was ultimately arrested for marijuana possession, DNAinfo reports. Also yesterday, a video surfaced of another Brooklyn cop apparently taking $1,300 from a man during a stop-and-frisk, then pepper-spraying him when he demanded it back, the New York Daily News reports; that incident is also under investigation. (Meanwhile, in St. Louis, an off-duty cop shot a teen to death last night.)