Candy Nicole, 25, was charged with assault, hate crime assault, and two counts of obstruction of governmental administration for punching a cop in the nose and another in the head in the Friday night fracas, the NYPD said.
Argenis Rivera, 33, was charged with criminal mischief for jumping on a marked NYPD cruiser and smashing the windshield with his foot, police said.
Katherine Stone, 34, was issued a desk appearance ticket for criminal mischief and possessing graffiti tools after she defaced the cop car, authorities said.
Read more of the Post’s coverage of Tyre Nichols’ beating death
The trio was handcuffed in the Crossroads of the World after protests of the police-beating death of Nichols turned violent.
The Times Square protest was one of several that erupted in the Big Apple as the sun went down. Others originated in Union Square and Grand Central Terminal.
Nichols died earlier this month after he was pulled over by Memphis police. The five cops involved in the traffic stop were charged with murder Thursday. Nichols and the five cops were black.
The 29-year-old Fed Ex driver’s death has sparked condemnation from leaders across the country as they urge peaceful demonstrations following the release of the graphic footage that shows Nichols pummeled and tased.
One of the officers has a Taser pressed into Nichols’ leg.
“OK, stop … You guys are really doing a lot right now. Stop!” Nichols says. “I’m just trying to go home!”
As one cop tells him, “Man, if you don’t lay down —” Nichols yells back, “I am on the ground!”
A scuffle then ensues, part of which is obscured on the body cam, but the video picks back up with the officer Tasing an uncuffed Nichols as he runs away while taking off his shirt.
Two other videos, both from police body cams, pick up as cops chase down Nichols in a residential area.
One video shows a cop shooting pepper spray at Nichols’ face while he’s on the ground screaming, “Mom!” several times.
Read more of the Post’s coverage of Tyre Nichols’ beating death
“Gimme your hands!” a cop tells him again, as Nichols appears to try to get up while rolling on the ground.
“Alright, alright,” he mumbles to the officers, and then one pepper sprays him again — appearing to also pepper spray himself.
That cop takes a minute or so to regain his composure, then rejoins the other officers who are still struggling with Nichols.
“Watch out, I’m gonna baton the f—k outta ya! Gimme you’re f—king hands!” one of the cops yells, with the video showing one of Nichols’ wrists handcuffed and held by a different officer.
The same video eventually shows one of the cops repeatedly punching Nichols in the face as another holds him up.
Nichols is also kicked several times in the head while restrained on the ground and beaten with a police baton.
He can be heard moaning incomprehensibly.
More cops eventually arrive at the scene, and Nichols is seen on the ground in a prone position and then propped up against a cop car.
At one point in the video, the cops complain about accidentally pepper spraying themselves.
“I sprayed myself,” one cop says.
“Man, me, too!” the other replies.
A fourth video, which has no audio, was shot from a pole, showing a far away angle of the alleged beatdown.
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