From [HERE] A NYPD cop who vowed to fight a court order to resign from the force for stomping on a suspect’s head has officially been given his walking papers, officials said Wednesday.

The NYPD terminated Police Officer Joel Edouard’s employment after a departmental trial, officials said.

Edouard, 38, was convicted of misdemeanor assault after he was caught on video stomping on Jahmi-El Cuffee’s head on Malcolm X Blvd. in Bedford-Stuyvesant in July 2014.

Had he been convicted of a felony, the 10-year NYPD veteran would have been fired immediately. Since he was convicted of a misdemeanor, the law allowed Edouard to keep his job.

Yet Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Alan Marrus added an unusual condition to his sentence to two years’ probation on June 23: resign from the force if Police Commissioner Bill Bratton didn’t fire him in the next 24 hours. [MORE]