....December 4, 12:28 PM
	Giant-Cop Accused In Body Slam Attack By Michael Lanza A New York City police officer was charged with assault on Tuesday after allegedly body-slamming a man he had nearly struck in his car only moments earlier along Queens Boulevard in Forest Hills. The alleged assault was sparked when the man hit the off-duty officer’s car after the near-miss. Jamel Dennis, 32-year-old narcotics officer from Queens assigned to the NYPD’s Brooklyn North Narcotics District, was charged with second-degree assault. “As a motorist – and more so, as a police officer – the defendant should have known better than to allegedly take matters into his own hands and elevate a minor traffic dispute into a felonious assault,” Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said. Dennis was allegedly driving along Queens Boulevard on Nov. 17, when he almost struck Geoffrey Hollinden, 41, as he was crossing the street. Hollinden then allegedly hit the rear of Dennis’s 2006 Infiniti in a rage as it passed him. The 6-foot and 6-inches tall officer then allegedly stepped out from his car, grabbed Hollinden around the waist and carried him across Queens Boulevard – where he lifted him to shoulder height and slammed him into the pavement along the service road. He was knocked unconscious and suffered a laceration to the head that required five staples, cranial bleeding and a herniated disc in his neck. Hollinden was hospitalized for three days. Dennis allegedly went to the 112th Precinct two days later, where he told police he had been involved in a traffic dispute with another man who had pushed him and wanted to know if anyone had come to file a complaint. He also allegedly pointed out a scuff mark on the back of his car to an Internal Affairs officer and said it was where the other man had hit it. The investigation began when an eyewitness reported Dennis’s license plate, prosecutors said. Dennis was suspended from duty as an officer for 30-days pending the results of the charges. He was released on his own recognizance and ordered to return to court on Jan. 15. If convicted, he faces up to seven years in prison.