He was hogtied, bound at the ankles and tethered hands-to-feet by an elastic strap. Stewart struggled with the officers and ran to the street. While being taken to the station, Kostick said, Stewart became “very violent” in the van. Stewart was taken to the District 4 Transit Police station at 14th Street–Union Square, two stops away. The officer held Stewart to the ground until the van arrived, where several officers put him inside. “At the top, Stewart fell face-forward on the ground,” said Kostick. Officer Kostick claimed Stewart was initially cordial, but suddenly ran off and had to be restrained while waiting for the arrest transport van. As Stewart was still living with his parents, he asked the police not to call his home to wake them up. Stewart allegedly said, "Hey, man, you got me." Kostick cuffed Stewart and walked him to the turnstile to be identified.
Transit Police Officer John Kostick found Stewart scrawling “RQS” on the wall and had him arrested. for spraying graffiti at the First Avenue station on the L train's Brooklyn-bound platform. On September 15, 1983, aspiring artist and model Michael Stewart left the Pyramid Club in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Michael Stewart was spraying graffiti at the First Avenue station (pictured) when he was arrested. The cause of death was listed as cardiac arrest. He died at age 25, on September 28, after 13 days in a coma. Stewart had been arrested earlier that day. Word of the arrest came out on September 15, 1983, as the Committee Against Racially Motivated Police Violence was holding a news conference to publicize a United States Congress hearing into complaints of police abuse. This was a widely publicized episode in New York City's history of police brutality cases.
His treatment while in police custody and the ensuing trials of the arresting officers (all of whom were acquitted) sparked debate concerning police brutality and the responsibilities of arresting officials in handling suspects. Michael Jerome Stewart (May 9, 1958, – September 28, 1983) was an African-American man who received recognition after his death following an arrest by New York City Transit Police for writing graffiti in soft-tip marker or using an aerosol can on a New York City Subway wall at the First Avenue station. For other people with the same name, see Michael Stewart (disambiguation).
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