Three police officers in the United States were suspended on Sunday after the video they beat a suspect who was detained into a viral on social media.
According to USA Today, the incident occurred at Crawford County in Arkansas. The video shows three law enforcement officers above a man under the arrest of punching his head and kneeling several times. The clip also showed one of the officers who appointed the person who recorded the video, ordered him to stop recording the incident.
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Following the social media anger, Crawford Regency Sheriff Jimmy Damante issued a statement, which informed that the two officers involved in the incident were Deputy at the Crawford Regency Sheriff Office, while the third was an officer at the Mulberry Police Department. The three police have been suspended and the Sheriff Office has also asked the state police to investigate.
I ask for responsibility for all my employees for their actions and will take the right steps in this matter,” Damante said in a Facebook post.
Separately, Mulberry Police Chief Shannon Gregory said that the officers involved in the incident were on leave while waiting for the results of the investigation. “The city of Mulberry and the Mulberry Police Department handled this investigation very seriously,” Gregory said according to USA Today.
Asa Hutchinson, Governor of Arkansas, also commented on the incident. Bringing to Twitter, he said that the incident would be investigated based on video evidence.
Quoting local media outlets, the New York Post reported that the officers responded to a report of a man who threatened a shop employee on Sunday morning. The suspect, who was identified as Randall Worcester, was suspected of spitting on workers and threatening to “cut their faces”.
The police department said that the officers started a “calm and civil” conversation with Worcester, however, he was allegedly starting to attack one of the deputies, which made officers hold it and seemed to defeat him as shown in the video.
After the incident, Mr. Worcester was reportedly taken to a regional hospital for examination and treatment, then he was then ordered in Crawford Regency in Van Buren, Arkansas.
[Randall] Worcester is charged with a 2 -level battery, rejecting arrest, rejection to submit, have crime instruments, criminal violations, criminal crime, terrorist threats, and 2nd level attacks,” said the police according to Ani.
Furthermore, officials tell me that once the investigation was completed, the lawyer of the Crawford Regional Prosecutor would determine whether the use of strength by police officers was consistent with the Arkansas Law.
