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- news@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
An Alabama police officer is on leave while authorities investigate a weekend arrest captured on video in Reform showing a handcuffed man being hit with a stun gun.
The video begins with a white female officer from the Reform Police Department in Pickens County ordering the Black man to “stand up” after he was handcuffed in the roadway in Pickens County.
She then tells him to lay down on the front of a vehicle, which he does face down.
The officer then holds a stun gun to the man’s back while she goes through his pockets. She tells him to “stay still” at which point he says, “I ain’t doing shit, bro. I got a gun right there.”
The officer laughs as she retrieves the gun and says, “Oh yea.”
She then deploys the stun gun directly into the man’s back, telling him to “shut the (expletive) up” as he screams.
The man then begins to cry, repeatedly saying, “Oh my God.”
The officer then says, “Do you want it again?” as the man continues to cry. “Shut your bitch ass up,’’ the officer says
They arrested a citizen. The phrasing is a bit confusing because the term “citizen’s arrest” usually refers to an ordinary citizen arresting another.
I think that’s deliberate; the chief and mayor know exactly what those terms mean, even better than we do.
One way to confuse people who don’t know much about a subject is to insert extraneous information and unnecessary detail, and frankly I think that’s why they said it the way they did. It serves to confuse the otherwise extremely clear picture of what happened by making it sound like there was a third party involved, or that the arrest gone wrong started with civilians or something, rather than it being a simple matter of one person of color, one taser, and one cop seriously getting off on causing him pain without cause.