The issue focused on Mayor de Blasio's decision not to pursue criminal charges against a New York Police Department officer who was caught on video punching and kicking a homeless man who was in a police van.


The alleged incident occurred at a Salvation Army shelter in Brooklyn in January, when a couple that had been living in a tent in the middle of the street used a bus shelter there as a place to sleep. Police says a homeless man was helping the couple and was sleeping in the roadway when the officer from the