While this incident occurred last month, I'm just now reading reports about it. It seems that the NYPD was called to investigate a noise complaint at a Staten Island gay man's home. The event escalated and the police threatened to kill the man's dog and threw him on to the concrete in front of his house. The man now says that he plans to sue the NYPD for violating his civil rights.
From Towleroad:
Louis Falcone, 31, told the New York Daily News how police arrived at his home on June 19 to investigate a noise complaint involving him and his brother. Things quickly turned sour, however, as Falcone said cops threatened to kill his dog and proceeded to throw him against the concrete in front of his house. He said cops called him a “fag” and “faggot” during the ensuing pin-down and stepped on his foot, which had a boot on it and was recovering from a recent surgery.
Falcone added that while he was on the ground, he had mud and blood in his mouth and heard one officer tell the others: ‘Don’t let it get on you, he probably has AIDS, the faggot.”
Falcone was handcuffed but not charged in the incident. He says he was left with a broken nose, two black eyes, cuts to his face and body, and required more foot surgery.
There are a few more details in the New York Daily News story in which the police say that Mr. Falcone was not cooperative. From that article:
“How can you do that - four people on one skinny, scrawny little guy?” Subin asked. “They're criminals; they belong behind bars.”
A police source familiar with the incident said the mother called 911 about her two sons fighting and “tearing up the house.”
The source said that when officers arrived, Falcone was there, injured and banged up, and that his brother had already left. Falcone was confrontational and uncooperative, the source said, and spit in one officer’s face before he was taken into custody and brought to Staten Island University North Hospital for evaluation.