Police Shootings / Possible Abuse Threads [merged]
An Alabama police officer is on administrative leave after video showed her repeatedly using a stun gun on a handcuffed man while he screamed and cried.
In a viral 45-second video clip, a police officer, who is White, is seen leading 24-year-old Micah Washington, who is Black and in handcuffs, to a cruiser and pushing his head against the hood during the Dec. 2 traffic stop.
Washington appears to cooperate with the officer.
The events leading up to the beginning of the video are not shown, but Washington is seen telling the Reform city police officer that he had a gun.
After retrieving the gun, the officer set it on the car hood, and said, “Oh, yeah.”
He asked her, “What you saying, ‘Oh, yeah’ for?”
The officer then discharges her stun gun multiple times into his back, instructing him to “be quiet,” followed by several expletives.
Washington wails out “Okay!” and “Oh, my God!” as the officer continues to stun him.
“You want it again?” the officer asks…….
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/12/06/reform-alabama-police-stun-gun-handcuff/