Black Lives Matter organizer streams police attempts to arrest him as he waits in home afraid cops will ‘mind-f**k me’
A BLACK Lives Matter organizer streamed the chaotic standoff he had with the NYPD as cops tried to arrest him at his home on Friday.
Derrick Ingram posted the live scene, which unfolded in Manhattan around 7am, to his Instagram, and questioned what he did wrong.
“What did I do? What did I do?” the 28-year-old said. “I was born black, that’s what I did.”
“They’re going to mindf**k me, deprive me of food and sleep. I’m staying my black a** at home,” Ingram said, according to the Gothamist.
Outside of his apartment in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of the city, police officers banged on his door with K-9s at their side, as a police helicopter flew overhead.
Per reports, the street was closed down by two dozen police vehicles, and some officers were dressed in riot gear.
Black Lives Matter supporters gathered on the block to protest what was happening.
The New York Times reported the standoff went on for several hours on Friday as Ingram spoke with his lawyers through Zoom.
Ingram, who co-founded Warriors in the Garden, said he wasn’t letting any NYPD cops into his apartment without a warrant.
A police spokesperson said that officers were trying to arrest him for allegedly assaulting a cop.
According to the New York Post, Ingram allegedly used a bullhorn to scream into a police officer’s ear during a protest, causing hearing damage.
Around 1pm, cops left Ingram’s home, but Ingram turned himself in to the department on Saturday morning while with his lawyer.
Protesters were seen marching to the NYPD’s North Precinct in Midtown Manhattan alongside Ingram, who called for Commissioner Dermot Shea to resign.
“I’m highly traumatized from everything from the drones, to the dogs, to the lies that have been told by the NYPD,” Ingram told supporters on Saturday.
“I’m ready to make a change. I think we should focus our efforts on getting Commissioner Shea out of office. I think we need to focus on addressing the lawlessness of the NYPD, ending qualified immunity, and creating equity within this city.”
Ingrams’ Warriors in the Garden group was created following the death of George Floyd and helps organize peaceful protests across the city.
Following Friday’s events, the group accused police of “threats and intimidation tactics” to rattle Ingram, who they said has “no criminal history.”
“This was an attempt to silence our movement. This militarized police response endangers the safety of residents in Hell’s Kitchen and across NYC,” the group said.
After cops retreated from Ingram’s home on Friday, police unions slammed it, asking who told them to retreat.
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Police Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch said in a statement, per the Post: “The NYPD’s top brass better start talking: Who really issued the order to retreat?”
“Who put police officers in the dangerous position of backing down in the face of an angry mob?”
Detectives’ Endowment Association President Paul DiGiacomo added: “By walking away from arresting a man who was wanted for previously assaulting a cop and backing down to an angry mob, the lives of detectives and their fellow cops were endangered and their valuable time was wasted.”