Violent arrest after video of white highway patrol officer pushing black man in handcuffs to the ground and strangling him goes viral online survey was conducted.
The video, filmed by Packer Lewis on Friday in McComb, Mississippi, sparked outrage and an investigation into the actions of police officers.
The video includes one of Lewis' brothers. Eugene Lewis is shown standing in the street in handcuffs, while Packer and another brother, Darius Lewis, shout that they are recording the conversation.
Video shows police grabbing Eugene Lewis by the neck, dragging him across the street, shoving him to the ground and into a roadside ditch before using his knee to immobilize him. shows the situation.
"That's how George Floyd died" Packer-Lewis can be heard screaming in the video, which he live-streamed to his Facebook. Floyd, the black man who died in May 2020 after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes, sparked a global outcry over police brutality.
Packer-Lewis told the Associated Press that the officer became aggressive after telling the brothers to leave the scene. I said I have to leave.It's not all your business.I said it's not business because it's our brother," he said.
After restraining Eugene Lewis and placing him in the back seat of a police car, officers turned their weapons on his two other brothers. A second mate arrived and arrested Packer and Darius Lewis.
Eugene Lewis told WJTV that officers initially stopped him because he was driving 35 mph in a 30 mph zone. Police told him he would be arrested for smoking marijuana before he started driving, which he denied.
"If this situation had happened at night, either I or my brother would have been shot or seriously injured." would have owed,” he wrote. "We don't need cops to protect and serve like this soldier. I was in prison for a few days and absolutely nothing. Sad, but that's the world we live in."
Assault Arrest Investigation. Authorities have not publicly identified the officers involved.
"The Mississippi Department of Public Safety was made aware of an incident in McComb, Mississippi in which members of his patrol on the Mississippi Highway were involved in the arrest of a subject," said Bailey Martin, spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety. said. "This incident is being investigated internally by the Department of Public Safety. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is also investigating.'
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