Three regulation enforcement officers in Crawford County, Arkansas, have been positioned on depart after a video shared on social media reveals them beating and restraining a person in a car parking zone. State police will examine the incident, the governor mentioned.
Within the video, a regulation enforcement officer repeatedly and brutally punches the person and slams his head in opposition to the cement floor a number of instances. One other officer is seen kicking the person’s decrease physique repeatedly whereas a 3rd officer is seen holding the person down.
Two of the officers are deputies with the Crawford County sheriff’s workplace and the third is an officer with town of Mulberry Police Division, regulation enforcement confirmed.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson confirmed that state police will examine the “arrest incident.”
“I’ve spoken with Col. Invoice Bryant of the Arkansas State Police and the native arrest incident in Crawford County shall be investigated pursuant to the video proof and the request of the prosecuting lawyer,” he mentioned in a tweet.
Crawford County Sheriff James Damante had mentioned in an announcement hours prior that his workplace had requested a state investigation, including that the 2 deputies concerned within the incident have been suspended “pending the end result of the investigation.”
“I maintain all my workers accountable for his or her actions and can take acceptable measures on this matter,” Damante mentioned within the assertion posted to Fb.
In a separate assertion from Mulberry Police, the division confirmed that the incident captured on video concerned one in every of its officers, who it mentioned has since been positioned on administrative depart pending the end result of a state police investigation.
“The Metropolis of Mulberry and the Mulberry Police Division takes these investigations very severely and holds all their officers accountable for his or her actions,” officers mentioned in the Fb submit. “We’ll take the suitable actions on the conclusion of the investigation.”
Regulation enforcement didn’t affirm when or the place the incident occurred, however native media report it occurred Sunday at a comfort retailer in Mulberry.
A consumer named Naomi Johnson uploaded a video of the incident to TikTok that she additionally shared on Twitter, and mentioned: “my sister witnessed this in the present day.” Johnson’s video appeared to have been faraway from TikTok on Sunday night.
