Video of NYPD officer pushing father with toddler raises questions about police use-of-force when a child is in harm’s way

The image in the cell phone video is difficult to make out. Recorded at around 11 p.m. one night last month, it shows at least three NYPD officers making an arrest in front of a shuttered hair salon after responding to a noise complaint in Flatbush, Brooklyn. What happened next has raised questions about how New York City police officers use force when a child is in harm’s way and how the city’s child welfare agency intervenes in child custody cases when a parent is arrested.