“If you’re facing an order from a police officer, and it’s a lawful order, you comply,” Arnie Kriss said Jan. 15. “If you’re facing arrest, you don’t beat up on cops. That’s a general rule.”
He was speaking exactly a week after the incident in which two police officers, meeting resistance when they tried to politely eject Sydney Williams and Aaron Grissom from a subway entrance in Washington Heights, wound up in a street brawl in which a bystander’s camera captured the cops and some late-arriving reinforcements striking Mr. Grissom repeatedly while he was on the ground but not yet in handcuffs.
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