COP WILL SURRENDER IN BEATING

COP WILL SURRENDER IN BEATING
The New York Post by LARRY CELONA and DOUGLAS MONTERO - February 11, 2009

A disgraced NYPD cop is expected to turn himself in today on charges he beat a handcuffed suspect with his baton in the lobby of an Upper West Side building - then tried to cover it up, The Post has learned. Surveillance cameras allegedly caught Officer David London, 43, repeatedly whacking Walter Harvin, 28, as he lay on the ground in the vestibule of the De Hostos Apartments on West 93rd Street on July 18. Harvin had been stopped for acting suspiciously and was asked for proof he belonged in the building. The veteran cop has already turned in his badge and gun. He faces charges of assault and filing a false report, the source said. "I just remember the beating and that's about it," said Harvin, an Iraq war veteran who proudly showed off his dog tags yesterday in his mother's apartment in the building where the assault took place.