2023-07-17 11:44:55
A police officer has reportedly been pulled from the field as body camera footage surfaced nearly a year after a heavy-handed arrest in which the officer allegedly punched a mother in the face as she held her weeks-old baby in her arms.
“On my life, you will not take my baby. My baby is three weeks old. You are going to hurt him”, can we hear the woman screaming with all her might, surrounded by the police, the baby in her arms, according to the images shared on Twitter.
The event, reported in the shocking video, would however have occurred in July 2022, when the police would have checked a vehicle which was driving without lights at night, and from which came a strong smell of alcohol, reported the Associated Press ( PA) Thursday.
It was then that they would have noticed three babies on board the vehicle, which were not in suitable seats, but rather in the arms of their mother.
Officers then allegedly arrested the four individuals: the three mothers for endangering a child, and the driver also for driving while impaired and without a valid license, the AP said.
But the situation would have degenerated when one of the mothers refused to hand over her baby to the agents, before being hit in the face several times by one of them, we can see.
On the images, we understand that the baby would then have been taken from her arms, before she was handcuffed in turn.
For his part, the Los Angeles County sheriff would have deemed the acts “completely unacceptable” during a press conference, indicating that he had only recently been made aware of the incident, according to the AP.
He would also have transferred the file to the office of the county attorney as well as to the FBI, which will have to determine whether there will be grounds for criminal proceedings against the police officer, who would have been removed from the field in the meantime, continued the sheriff. .
In 2015, this department, which is among the most active in the county in terms of the number of arrests, was accused of disproportionate use of force in racial contexts, according to the news agency.
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