The US authorities announced that three US police officers have been suspended after posting clips online showing them violently beating a man during his arrest in southern Arkansas (south).
In the video, which sparked outrage on social media, police officers pinned a white man to the ground, punched him hard on the head, kicked him on his knees and hit his face on the ground.
When passers-by tried to speak to the police, one of them ordered them to move away.
“Like many of you, I was shocked and disgusted by what I saw,” Mulberry Mayor Gary Baxter said in a statement Sunday evening, announcing that one of the officers had been placed on “administrative leave” pending the results of the investigation.
The two other policemen working in Crawford County were also suspended and the county official promised that he would take “appropriate measures.”
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