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3. VIDEO: Ex-CIA Officer Ray McGovern describes his brutal arrest by NYPD

Ex-CIA Officer Ray McGovern describes his brutal arrest by NYPD
Published on Oct 31, 2014

The New York City Police Department arrested former CIA officer Ray McGovern on Thursday night, preventing him from attending a given by former CIA director David Petraeus. Although he had purchased a ticket to the event, officers stopped the outspoken peace activist and proceeded to arrest him before he even entered the building. RT’s Manila Chan speaks to McGovern himself to get his firsthand account of the incident.

(RT video to be swapped out for DemocracyNow!'s weekday only reporting when it becomes available.)

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McGovern said he showed up at the event with a black-eye and a sore wrist, and had earlier been wearing a sling on his left arm to aid the injury. At the Petraeus event, however, he says police exacerbated those injuries by forcefully handcuffing him and then hauling him off to a local precinct where he was charged with resisting arrest, criminal trespass, and disorderly conduct. He says he then spent the night on a stainless steel cot.

“If you’ve seen the footage, you can see me screaming in pain as they try to pin my left wrist around behind my back,” he told RT. He added that there was “lots of blood on my pants” as he was being arrested.