VIDEO AND PICTURES EMERGE SHOWING NYPD OFFICER BRUTALLY BEATING A MAN A JEWISH YOUTH CENTER

Shocking video emerged showing the moments a New York police officer launches into a sustained beating of a shirtless man in the basement of a Jewish youth center.
Two officers were called to the basement of the Aliya Institute youth center in Brooklyn by volunteer security guard Zlamy Trappler, who found the man sleeping in the center's lounge.
But the security officer now 'regrets making the call' after witnessing the beating of the man, identified as a man called Ehud Halevi, who sources say was allowed to stay at the center.
The pictures appear to show the unidentified male officer launch a swinging right-hook punch at the man, which is followed by a two minute 'beating' in which the female officer uses a pepper spray and a truncheon against Halevi, who cowers on the sofa.

The officer prepares to throw his punch, as the female officer moves forward

The apparent beating continues for two minutes until a further eight officers arrive at the scene.

Police have not yet responded to the video, which saw Halevi charged with assaulting a police officer, trespassing, resisting arrest and harassment.
But Trappler told CrownHeights.Info, which posted the video: 'I regret making the call. I should have let him sleep. It spiraled out of control.'
The video shows Halevi asleep on the sofa as the two officers arrive. As they try to rouse him, Halevi appears disorientated and unhappy at being awoken, and gestures at the officers.
As they move forward he puts his hands behind his back, in an apparent move to refuse handcuffs, and then tries to stop the officers grabbing his wrists.
But he does not appear to be acting with hostility - even stopping to hitch up his tracksuit - as the male officer gets into a fighting stance and appears to deliver a punch at Halevi.

A further two minutes pass by during which numerous and frantic punches appear to be thrown at Halevi, as the female officer apparently uses a truncheon - which she drops at one point - and pepper spray against the man.

The video was shot on the evening of October 8 and police were reportedly responding to calls that two men were fighting.
The NYPD has not yet responded to the video, but community sources told CrownHeights.Info that the man was allowed to stay at the centre, an account confirmed to the Daily News by Sara Feiglin, the wife of Rabbi Moshe Feiglin, who runs the youth center.