Jason Serrano and his ex-girlfriend were driving down Broad Avenue on Staten Island to get some Puerto Rican food when they got stopped by two NYPD officers for a broken taillight. Standing outside the passenger side window, one of the officers, Kyle Erickson, said he smelled marijuana. “You got ashes all over you, it smells like weed,” he said with his body camera rolling.
Police ordered Serrano out of the car. After a brief argument over whether a search was necessary, Erickson and his partner Elmer Pastran pushed Serrano to the ground and cuffed him. Serrano, who was recovering from an abdominal wound, lay hurt on the sidewalk. As police waited for an ambulance, Officer Erickson’s body camera catches him mumbling, “Yeah we gotta find something.”
Serrano says he does not remember much about Erickson’s car searches beyond being in pain on the ground barely able to move. When he woke up in the hospital, he learned he had been charged with resisting arrest and…
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