Well, the TA will be releasing the bodycam video any moment now, surely, along with their new guidebook that outlines faceplanting as a crowd control technique, right?
from the link embedded in the article. The newscaster describes the terminal as a makeshift homeless center around the 2 minute mark, so there are indigent there on a regular basis. The witness says the guy was against a wall:
“She says before the scuffle, she noticed the man sitting against a wall as she walked out of the Transit Center. She says her phone battery was low and it died after about a minute of recording.
“After my phone died it continued to happen. The berating. Probably another five minutes. Dragging him on the cement and dragging his face on the ground,” she said. “
The video does not show what happened leading up to the incident.
“I don’t know if anything occurred. I’m not speculating that anything did. I can only attest to what I saw. And what I saw wasn’t warranted,” said the woman.
https://6abc.com/video-allegedly-shows-nj-transit-officer-dragging-man/5181934/
So you have a trespasser refusing to leave and instead of arresting him on the spot, the cop tries to drag him away when the jerk lies on the ground.
I think the cop cut him a break.
Exaggerating police abuse in circumstances like this does nothing to prevent the real abuse.