'Snowball Fight/Gun' Video is Misleading, Says New Rochelle PD

Reason
Feb. 03, 2015

Yesterday, I noted a video depicting Sgt. Joseph Salerno, a New Rochelle, NY police officer, pointing his gun at a kneeling teenager after what a witness described was a "snowball fight." New Rochelle police did not immediately comment on the incident which happened last Friday, but today, NRPD Commissioner Anthony Murphy told the New York Daily News that the 30 second video clip is "clever mischief" which took the incident out of context.Youtube

On the video, an off-camera witness says, "this group of guys was having a snowball fight and now the cop has a gun on them." Murphy denied there was ever a snowball fight and explained that officers were on the scene responding to a 911 call of a teenager who pulled a gun out of his waistband and pointed it at someone. 

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