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Judi Lynn

(160,217 posts)
Tue May 19, 2020, 03:44 PM May 2020

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 Arbery’s 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 “don’t 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

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2017 video shows Georgia officer tried to stun Ahmaud Arbery (Original Post) Judi Lynn May 2020 OP
In addition to showing police acting as dicks, it shows Arbery complying with uniformed police. Hoyt May 2020 #1
that is not a "police" department.. stillcool May 2020 #2
THIS. Their idea of a "bad apple" is a honest cop Grokenstein May 2020 #3
+1000 EllieBC May 2020 #4
So did the cops there have this guy on a hit list? Thomas Hurt May 2020 #5
Completely immaterial imo. cstanleytech May 2020 #6
To the trial? Possibly? LanternWaste May 2020 #7
 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
1. In addition to showing police acting as dicks, it shows Arbery complying with uniformed police.
Tue May 19, 2020, 03:51 PM
May 2020

If anything, that will/should hurt the vigilantes' defense.

Grokenstein

(5,707 posts)
3. THIS. Their idea of a "bad apple" is a honest cop
Tue May 19, 2020, 04:07 PM
May 2020

who actually follows/enforces the law without prejudice.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
7. To the trial? Possibly?
Tue May 19, 2020, 06:14 PM
May 2020

To the ongoing conversation this is yet but another example of however, it's completely relevant.

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