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BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, Brooklyn (WABC) -- An NYPD officer will be sentenced Friday for stomping a suspect in the head two years ago.
Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson has asked a judge to sentence officer Joel Edouard to two months in jail and two years probation in the incident. He could also receive no jail time.
Edouard was convicted of misdemeanor assault in the July 2014 stomping of Jahmi-El Cuffee on Malcolm X Boulevard in Bedford-Stuyvesant, an attack caught on camera.
Edouard could face up to a year in jail. He will be sentenced by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Alan Marrus.
"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," said Thompson.
In March, Thompson recommended NYPD Officer Peter Liang serve 500 hours of community service, five years probation and six months of house arrest for the reckless manslaughter death of Akai Gurley. A judge sentenced him to five years' probation and downgraded the jury's verdict to criminally negligent homicide.
In this case, Thompson asked the judge for jail time.