NYPD officers attacked while attempting arrest outside migrant shelter

The NYPD was seeking information after several suspects “kicked and punched police officers in the head and body” while they were making an arrest outside the former Candler Tower office building, which is being used as a migrant shelter. CCTV footage released by the New York City Police Department shows the two officers being pushed towards the ground while trying to arrest a man in a yellow jacket. The two officers are then punched, dragged and kicked repeatedly as they try to subdue the subject, who is last seeing leaving the scene. Police said the individuals “fled on foot towards 7th Ave”. The New York Post and CBS cited police sources as saying the suspects were migrants living at various shelters. The Post said four of them – Darwin Andres Gomez Izquiel, 19, Kelvin Servat Arocha, 19, Juarez Wilson, 21, and Yorman Reveron, 24 – were charged with assault and released without bail. A fifth suspect, named by the Post as Jhoan Boada, 22, was also arrested, the paper said.