Dashcam video shows white cop punching black man during stop
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Source: Associated Press
Mark Gillispie and Dake Kang, Associated Press
Updated 3:40 pm, Friday, August 18, 2017
CLEVELAND (AP) — A dashcam video of a traffic stop that led to a white police officer with a history of disciplinary issues repeatedly punching a black man and hitting his head on pavement appears to show a different sequence of events than police had originally described.
The initial statement from police in the Cleveland suburb of Euclid said 25-year-old Richard Hubbard III — pulled over on suspicion of having a suspended driver's license — had refused Officer Michael Amiott's orders to "face away" after getting out of his car Aug. 12 and then began resisting. But the video obtained this week in a public records request appears to show Amiott not giving Hubbard a chance to comply.
"Your own two eyes and common sense can lead to only one reasonable conclusion as to the propriety of the level of force used for a basic traffic stop and whether or not my client had a chance to comply," Hubbard's attorney, Christopher McNeal, said Friday.
The dashcam video shows Amiott opening the car door and Hubbard getting out. Within a second of Amiott ordering him to "face away," the video shows the officer grabbing Hubbard's arms and wrestling him to the ground in the middle of a street as Hubbard's girlfriend jumps out of the car and rushes over.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Dashcam-video-raises-questions-about-officer-use-11942414.php
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