'DEPLORABLE ACT OF POLICE BRUTALITY': NYPD cop convicted for intentionally stomping on Bed-Stuy man's head deserves two months in jail: DA

 Saying police officers should be held to a “higher standard of conduct,” Brooklyn DA Kenneth Thompson asked a judge Thursday to throw a cop in jail for two months following his misdemeanor assault conviction.

“When a police officer engages in such an open and deplorable act of police brutality, his conduct has a direct and lasting impact upon the public perception of police officers in general,” Thompson said in a recommendation letter to Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Alan Marrus.

“The people of Bedford-Stuyvesant, where the assault occurred, and those in every community of Brooklyn, are entitled to believe that a police officer will be held to a higher standard of conduct than that of a violent criminal,” Thompson added.

In April, Marrus, in a bench trial, convicted Officer Joel Edouard of assault in the July 2014 beatdown of Jahmi-El Cuffee, who was stomped in the head, on Malcolm X Blvd. in Bed-Stuy.

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Edouard, 37, a nine-year veteran, was caught on video, which showed the cop briefly pulling out his gun, walking away as backup arrived, then making a U-turn to kick Cuffee in the head.

“This type of intentional act of violence requires deterrence which was the reason for recommending jail time,” a law enforcement source said.

Thompson also recommended Edouard serve two years’ probation following his time in jail.

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He could face up to a year on Rikers Island when Justice Marrus sentences him Friday.

Edouard has been indefinitely placed on modified assignment.

Edouard’s lawyer, Anthony Ricco, did not return a request for comment.

The recommendation comes in sharp contrast to how the DA handled the sentencing of NYPD Officer Peter Liang. In March, Thompson recommended Liang serve 500 hours’ community service, five years’ probation and six months’ house arrest for the reckless manslaughter death of Akai Gurley.

Thompson’s office had successfully prosecuted Liang for shooting Gurley to death during a 2014 stairway patrol at the Pink Houses in East New York.

Liang dodged jail time when a judge sentenced him to five years’ probation in April following Thompson’s request — and downgraded the jury’s verdict to criminally negligent homicide.

“Unlike the Liang case, this was a case of police brutality and not an accident,” the source said.
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