(VIDEO) NYPD OFFICER INDICTED AFTER VIDEO SHOWS HIM STOMPING ON THE HEAD OF A SUBDUED BLACK MAN

An NYPD cop has been indicted for stomping on the head of a subdued suspect in an incident that was caught on video, a source said.

Officer Joel Edouard, 37, will be arraigned Tuesday in Brooklyn Supreme Court on an assault charge for kicking Jahmil-El Cuffee after he was wrestled to the ground by cops in Bedford-Stuyvesant last July, according to the source.

“Help me! Help me!” Cuffee, 32, can be heard yelling on the video. “I didn’t do nothing.”

Cops were on patrol when they saw Cuffee allegedly rolling a joint outside a home at 223 Malcolm X Blvd. on July 23, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Cuffee showed cops his ID, but when they attempted to place him under arrest, he allegedly resisted and the officers struggled to take him down.

Edouard is seen on the video pulling out his gun before allegedly stomping on the suspect’s head. Cuffee suffered minor injuries.



Edouard is the third NYPD police officer charged by the Brooklyn DA’s Office since November, when two cops were indicted by a grand jury for chasing down a teen and allegedly hitting him in the face with a gun.

The Cuffee incident took place just days after Eric Garner was killed while being detained by a police officer during an arrest on Staten Island, in another incident caught on video.

“I just want it all to stop,” Cuffee told the Journal in July, referring to Garner’s death. “[I’m] a little sore, but I’m all right. I’ll be all right.”

A grand jury convened by Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan decided not to indict the officer in the Garner case.