NYPD Cops Pummel Pro-Palestinian Protesters, Spark Outrage: Videos

NEW YORK CITY — NYPD officers punched and violently arrested pro-Palestinian protesters in Brooklyn over the weekend, according to videos that sparked wide outrage.

One video posted by independent reporter Katie Smith showed an NYPD officer in a white shirt — a sign he's a supervisor — repeatedly pummeling a man on the ground while other cops violently take down another protester.

But Mayor Eric Adams and police brass double-downed on defending the NYPD's response to the Bay Ridge protest Saturday, with Hizzoner deeming it "commendable."

"Job well done by police department of dealing with a very volatile situation," he said Monday on NY1.

"People want to take that one isolated incident that we're investigating — they need to look at the totality of what happened in that bedroom community. That is unacceptable."

All told, NYPD officers arrested 41 people during the Nakba Day protest organized by the group Within Our Lifetime, tweeted Kaz Daughtry, the department's deputy commissioner of operations.

But Talia Jane, another independent reporter, tweeted that the NYPD's video accompanying the post sanitized cops' actions. A video she shared showed an NYPD officer seemingly attacking a protester without warning and arresting a credentialed reporter.

Council Member Justin Brannan, who represents Bay Ridge, condemned the NYPD's response.

"I saw no evidence of actions by protestors today that warranted such an aggressive response from NYPD," he tweeted.

"Justin and I must have looked at two different protests," Adams said in response.