Men Could Still Face Charges for Fighting NYPD Officer

Men Could Still Face Charges for Fighting NYPD Officer
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NEW YORK—New York City prosecutors say five homeless men seen on video battling a police officer on a subway platform could still face criminal charges.

Police cited the men the next day for sleeping on the station floor, not for the altercation. The Manhattan District Attorney’s dropped that case, citing a policy curbing prosecution of those kinds of low-level violations.