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A white feminine Alabama cop has been positioned on depart for laughing whereas utilizing a stun gun on a crying handcuffed Black man … with the distressing video broadly circulating on-line.
Within the clip, the unidentified cop from the Reform Police Division in Pickens County was filmed Saturday swearing and berating the person … who District Legal professional Andy Hamlin says was arrested on a trafficking fentanyl cost.
She’s seen shouting on the cuffed man to lie on the entrance of the automobile together with his face down and ordering him to “stay still.”
Nonetheless, when the person responds, “I ain’t doing s***, bro. I got a gun right there,” she takes the gun out of his pocket and instantly deploys the stun gun into his again.
With the person clearly in ache and crying, she warns: “Do you want it again? Shut your b***h a** up!”
In response to the venom proven by the cop, reform police Chief Richard Black and Mayor Melody Davis launched a joint assertion … studying: “The Reform Police Department is aware of a video circulating involving a citizen’s arrest on December 2.”
It was added: “The department is in the process of turning over all materials related to this arrest to the Alabama State Bureau of Investigation and has requested a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding the arrest. In accordance with City Policy, the officer involved has been placed on administrative leave while the investigation is conducted.”
The clip has drawn widespread fury on-line … with some labeling it “sickening” and an “abuse of power” and others calling for her arrest.
The id of the person taken into custody on the drug-related cost has not been launched.
