Video shows Illinois officer taking down Black teen after she calls him racist
A video shows an Illinois police officer wrestling a Black teen girl to the ground and threatened to use a stun gun during a arrest.
The incident began when an employee at Casey’s General Store in Carbondale called police on Sept. 23 to report the teen for trespassing after she was banned. The 56-second video clip shows the officer grab the hood of the girl’s sweatshirt after she calls him racist. The officer then pulls her to the ground and lands on top of her according to The Southern Illinoisan.
“You are going to get tased if you don’t stop,” the officer said while witness scream for him to stop.
The officer alleged the teen refused to identify herself when he responded to the complaint. In a statement from police the officer believed force was necessary to detain the girl.
“That’s most definitely not the protocol,” former officer Nancy Maxwell, founder of the Southern Illinois Unity Coalition told the news outlet. “In fact, restraining somebody, putting them down on the ground, that’s supposed to be the last-ditch effort if you … as the officer feels threatened, or you feel that the public safety is in jeopardy. None of that was the case. (There) is so many other ways, different scenarios that could have came up without her ending up on the ground.”
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