The messages were unearthed in a pending lawsuit over police conduct during the 2020 unrest.
Newly unveiled text messages show NYPD officers responding to a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Mott Haven encouraged one another to “HAVE FUN” and “Kick their a–” before police beat, pepper-sprayed and arrested hundreds of people, according towere eager to make arrests and use force at the June 4, 2020 demonstration. In one text sent the day before the encounter, then-Capt.
The city tried to keep the messages secret, arguing in court papers that they were irrelevant to the case and could subject Delgado to “embarrassment and harassment” or endanger his safety. But Judge Valerie Figueredo ruled last week that they should be released, because the city hadn’t proved Delgado would face serious harm, and because he was a high-ranking officer who was in charge of the Strategic Response Group during the protest.
“People were not happy with us at that moment in time,” she said. “It only takes one extremist in that group of a thousand peaceful people to turn a situation volatile and dangerous. And that's how we have always been trained.”
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