By India Today World Desk: A stunning video of a Los Angeles County deputy throwing a girl on the bottom and utilizing pepper spray has sparked outrage. The video is now going viral on social media.
The incident happened on June 24 exterior the WinCo grocery retailer in Lancaster, a report in Fox News mentioned. The division mentioned that cops caught a person and girl accused of theft inside the shop.
This is Lancaster, California.
A Los Angeles county sheriffs deputy throws a Black girl to the bottom and brutalized her for filming them arresting her husband.
Filming the police isn’t unlawful.
This is brutality.
Arrest this pig. pic.twitter.com/BKg9dnZX7M
— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) July 4, 2023
In the video, a police officer is proven inserting handcuffs on a person, whereas a girl captures your entire sequence of occasions on her telephone. Afterwards, one other officer approaches the girl, grabs her forcefully, and throws her to the bottom.
Shockingly, he then proceeds to make use of pepper spray on her face. The girl yells and pleads to the deputy to not contact her earlier than he slams her.
“Don’t slam her down like that,” the detained man tells the police within the clip, including that the girl has most cancers.
The video reveals one other individual recording the act, shouting on the officer to cease as he struggles to restrain the girl on the bottom.
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Lisa Michelle Garrett, who recorded the incident, mentioned the girl within the video was saying “I can’t breathe.”
In an announcement, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department mentioned, “The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has opened an investigation into this incident. While the Department does not make statements related to ongoing investigations, Sheriff Luna has made it clear that he expects Department personnel to treat all members of the public with dignity and respect, and that personnel who do not uphold our training standards will be held accountable. In the interest of transparency with our community, the Sheriff’s Department is releasing body-worn camera video from the incident.”
The identities of the officers within the video haven’t but been made public. But the division has said that each have been faraway from discipline responsibility whereas the inquiry is on.
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