Officer Abraham Zakutinsky allegedly kills Samuel Laurie

The defendant [Zakutinsky, a police officer] was called to a Lenox Avenue restaurant to apprehend one Samuel Laurie, who was “creating a disturbance.” After arriving to the front of said restaurant, the defendant placed Laurie under arrest, to which he “swung at police officer with his fist.” The officer then struck him on the jaw with his fist, “causing him to fall to the ground, receiving a fractured skull from which injury he died same day at Harlem Hospital.”