Fires, mayhem in the Bronx, as separate videos show one cop beaten, two more doing nothing as thieves loot store

A commercial street in the Bronx was burning Monday, June 1, as looters and rioters set fires, broke into stores and, in one shocking moment, beat a police officer to the ground, as pictured here.
A commercial street in the Bronx was burning Monday, June 1, as looters and rioters set fires, broke into stores and, in one shocking moment, beat a police officer to the ground, as pictured here.

A commercial street in the Bronx was burning Monday night -- as looters and rioters set fires, broke into stores and, in one shocking moment, beat a police officer to the ground.
The mayhem erupted as scores of looters -- using social justice protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man killed by a white cop in Minneapolis as cover -- brazenly broke into high-end Manhattan stores.
As the looting grew in intensity in Midtown and Soho, similar behavior erupted uptown. Several social media videos captured the scene on E. Fordham Road in Fordham Heights.
In one disturbing scene, a man is seen on top of a uniformed police officer outside a Claire’s store on E. Fordham Rd. near E. Tiebout Ave.
A second man in red throws a heavy object at the officer and runs off, and a third man picks up the object and hurls it at the officer again, as passers by record the violence on their phone and scream “F--- 12!” -- a slang remark meaning “F--- the police.”
The officer gets up and pulls out a gun, and the men scatter.

Another video, posted by the same Instagram account, shows two officers standing by with flashlights, doing nothing as at least a dozen looters stumble out from under a metal shutter at the Sneaker Plaza store on E. Fordham Rd. at Creston Ave.

One looter can be seen falling down right in front of the cops and slowly getting up, while a second comes back to collect dropped bags of stolen property.

“We are aware of the videos/incidents and they remain under internal review,” the NYPD said in a statement early Tuesday.

Other videos posted to Twitter showed several trash fires burning brightly along Fordham Road.
“Just left the Bronx. Real problems on Fordham Road, also Burnside Avenue,” Mayor de Blasio tweeted just after 1 a.m. Tuesday. “Spoke with Councilman Fernando Cabrera about immediate steps to address the situation. Also spoke to Commissioner Shea + Chief Pichardo, who are sending additional help.”
Firefighters responded to dozens of rubbish fires across the Bronx, Manhattan and Brooklyn Monday night into early Tuesday.

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  1. Fires, mayhem in the Bronx, as separate videos show one cop beaten, two more doing nothing as thieves loot store, AOC seen driving a fork lift carrying a pallet of bricks and 3, 5 gallon cans of gas and laughing hysterically for no apparent reason

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