2017 video shows Georgia officer tried to stun Ahmaud Arbery
Source: Associated Press
Russ Bynum, Associated Press
Updated 12:00 pm CDT, Tuesday, May 19, 2020
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) More than two years before he was fatally shot in a Georgia subdivision, Ahmaud Arbery had a tense confrontation in a public park with police officers who attempted to use a stun gun on him after Arbery angrily protested being bothered and refused to let them search his parked car.
You bothering me for nothing! Arbery tells one of the Glynn County police officers whose body camera recorded the encounter on Nov. 7, 2017.
In the incident report for the 2017 encounter, officer M. Kanago writes that he pulled up behind Arberys car parked in an open field at a public park because it was a known area for drugs and other criminal activity.
First obtained by The Guardian, the video released Monday shows Arbery repeatedly declining when an officer asks to search his Toyota. A backup officer arrives, and tells Arbery dont reach the car and keep your hands out your pockets. This second officer then attempts to use a stun gun as Arbery raises his hands out to his sides. The device just clicks loudly; the officer later says it malfunctioned. Arbery complies with orders to get on the ground, and he goes to his knees.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/2017-video-shows-Georgia-officer-tried-to-tase-15279574.php
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)If anything, that will/should hurt the vigilantes' defense.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)that's a good-old-boys protection racket.
Grokenstein
(5,707 posts)who actually follows/enforces the law without prejudice.
This is why blindly trusting the police is always a bad idea too.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)To the ongoing conversation this is yet but another example of however, it's completely relevant.