NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A video captured a brawl between two NYPD officers and an apparently homeless man inside a Manhattan subway on Monday.
The incident occurred around 2:30 p.m. at the Herald Square Station on Broadway and West 32nd Street when the officers spotted two people sleeping on the mezzanine, officials said.
When the officers asked the men to leave, one of them became aggressive and began to scuffle with them, police said.
He was later identified by. the New York Post as 43-year-old Perry Robinson of Greensboro, North Carolina.
The video, shared on Instagram, shows one of the officers grab Robinson, who is wearing a brown leather jacket, by the arm after he stands up from the floor.
Robinson is then seen as he tries to fight the officer, swinging at one of them but falling down.
Both policemen attempt to restrain Robinson while on the ground, with one appearing to punch him in the face, the video shows.
One officer loses his gun belt during the brawl and a pedestrian then tries to intervene.
The policemen were eventually able to restrain the man.
Robinson was arrested for assault of a police officer, resisting arrest, and obstruction of governmental administration, according to police.
Sources. tell the Post that one officer was bitten on his left forearm, and the other suffered pain and bruising to his right knee. They were taken to Lenox Hill Hospital for treatment.
