On the images filmed on Sunday in Mulberry, in Arkansas, the police maintain a white man on the ground, drying him violent punches on the head, inflicting knee strokes in his legs then hitting his face against The concrete soil.
Le Monde with AFP
Three American police officers were suspended after the online broadcast of images showing them violently hitting a man during an arrest in the Arkansas (South), the authorities announced on Sunday, August 21.
In the video, which created indignation on social networks, the police maintain a white man on the ground, drying him violent kicks in the head and inflicting knee in his legs, Then striking his face against the concrete floor. “It’s serious,” said a person out of the field of the camera. When passers -by try to address the police, one of them orders them to stay at a distance.
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Videos showing police violence, often against African-Americans, regularly make headlines in the United States, a country marked by the murder of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer in May 2020.
One of the police officers placed in “administrative leave”
“Like many of you, I was shocked and disgusted by what I saw,” said Gary Baxter, the mayor of the city where the video was filmed, Mulberry, in a press release announcing That one of the police had been placed on “administrative leave”, pending the results of an investigation. The two other agents, who work for County Crawford, have also been suspended, the sheriff promising that he would take “appropriate measures”.
The violent arrest occurred on Sunday around 10:40 am (5:40 p.m. in Paris) in front of a food store, according to the police of the Arkansas State, which opened an investigation into ” the use of force “by the police.
Randall Worcester, 27, the victim, was transported to a hospital before being imprisoned, according to the same source. It is targeted by several charges, in particular refusal to comply, resistance to arrest and aggression.
The suspect is accused of threatening an employee of a service station, who called the police, said the County Sheriff Jimmy Damante, a 40/29 local channel. Randall Worcester was first cooperative, before becoming violent and trying to attack the police, said Damante.
The State Governor of the State, Asa Hutchinson, said on Twitter having spoken with the State Police Head, ensuring that the facts would be the subject of” an investigation in accordance with the video evidence and the request of the prosecutor “.