A violent encounter between a man and Jacksonville officers during a traffic stop was captured on a witness’ cellphone and body-worn police cameras, both of which were obtained Wednesday by News4JAX.
In an angle from one of the body-worn cameras, an officer can be heard saying he sees what looked like a gun.“I don’t have no gun! What are y’all talking about a gun,” the man yells.Security expert James Brown, who is a former JSO officer, was able to review the footage that was taken by a witness.
“It’s very dangerous because you got an individual’s head. The carotid artery. The neck. There are a lot of things that can go wrong, especially with the head being locked and the individual’s bodyweight and then delivering punches,” Brown said of the footage. Brown also said that when there are multiple officers at a scene, there should be a coordinated effort to take a suspect into custody.
“If you have multiple officers going after one individual, you can easily get confused in the struggle to where you’re working against yourselves,” Brown explained.His mother told News4JAX over the phone that she felt her son did not deserve to be beaten by police.“Yesterday afternoon, Sheriff Waters was notified by concerned citizens of an incident involving the use of force by Jacksonville Sheriff’s officers that had occurred the evening prior.
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