Police caught on video assaulting a Black Lyft passenger fired

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According to the statement by the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office, the officer was terminated for the “excessive use of force” against 26-year-old Roderick Walker. A criminal investigation of the unidentified officer has been turned over to the district attorney’s office.

The Clayton County, Georgia Sheriff’s Office has reportedly launched an internal investigation Friday night (September 11) after a shocking video circulated on social media of the violent arrest of a Black man. The man, his cousin and a third person were passengers in a Lyft that was pulled over in Clayton County for having a tail light that was out.

 

They say Sheriff’s deputies asked for the driver’s license but he didn’t have one. Cops then reportedly asked the other passengers in the car for their licenses to which they asked why they needed to produce them when they weren’t driving or doing anything wrong. A confrontation soon begins afterwards. In the viral videos, multiple deputies, who have not been named by the sheriff’s office, can be seen pinning the man down, and one appeared to have him in a hold around his neck.

 

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