Video After The Jump
MULBERRY, Ark. (AP) — Three Arkansas law enforcement officers have been suspended & a state police has been investigation launched after a video posted on social media showed a suspect being held down on the ground & beaten by police.
Arkansas State Police said Sunday night that it would investigate the use of force by the officers earlier in the day outside a convenience store in Mulberry, about 140 miles northwest of Little Rock.
Two Crawford County sheriff’s deputies & 1 Mulberry police officer were suspended Sunday, city & county. The officers were responding to a report of a man making threats outside the convenience store, authorities said.
State police identified the man as Randall Worcester, 27, of Goose Creek, South Carolina. The video shows 1 officer punching Worcester with a clenched fist, while another can be seen kneeing him & a third is holding him down.
Worcester was taken to a hospital for treatment Sunday then released & booked on multiple charges, including second-degree battery, resisting arrest & terroristic threatening.
Authorities have not released the names of the 3 officers. Crawford County Sheriff Jimmy Damante said Sunday that the 2 deputies were suspended pending an investigation.
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