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Video Shows Police Sergeant Grabbing Teen by Neck in Rockland County

Surveillance footage from Sunday night shows a Haverstraw police sergeant grabbing a 17-year-old teenager by the neck outside a bodega along Broadway in Downtown Haverstraw just after 10 p.m.
The teenager said `You're not my father`, and Jean Poulard said the sergeant was triggered by this remark.
Surveillance footage shows the sergeant grabbing the teenager by the neck outside a bodega along Broadway in Downtown Haverstraw just after 10 p.m. Sunday.
The sergeant has been placed on paid administrative leave, Town Supervisor Howard T. Phillips said, after the incident involving the 17-year-old during Sunday’s arrests.
According to Phillips, while police had their hands full that night, he maintains the sergeant was out of line and the actions were inappropriate, as witness Jean Poulard said the sergeant lost it after the teen's remark.

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