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Video of Washington police forcefully restraining black teen prompts protest
Source: The Guardian
Video of Washington police forcefully restraining black teen prompts protest
Jon Swaine in New York
Tuesday 13 October 2015 22.24 BST
Dozens of young people protested in Washington DC on Tuesday after cellphone video emerged showing police aggressively restraining an 18-year-old scholarship student and musician.
Friends of Jason Goolsby, who is African American, were among those who took to streets in the city’s south-east section to demonstrate against his detention on Monday evening by city officers who were responding to a call alleging suspicious activity outside a bank.
Footage filmed by a friend showed Goolsby yelling and screaming as he was manhandled by two officers, who twisted his arms behind his back and placed their knees on his body to keep him on the ground. “I’m not resisting,” he said, as one officer appeared to prepare to handcuff him.
The friend, who was identified in the clip as Mike, posted the video on Twitter on Monday evening. He wrote that the pair had been “harassed and assaulted because ‘someone felt uncomfortable around us’ at the bank”. The footage showed that Mike was also detained by officers after they ordered him to step back. Officials claimed he was “interfering with police”. Neither man was officially arrested.
Lieutenant Sean Conboy of the metropolitan police department said in an emailed statement that the call to police claimed that “three subjects may be trying to rob people at the ATM” in the area of 6th St and Pennsylvania Ave SE.
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Jon Swaine in New York
Tuesday 13 October 2015 22.24 BST
Dozens of young people protested in Washington DC on Tuesday after cellphone video emerged showing police aggressively restraining an 18-year-old scholarship student and musician.
Friends of Jason Goolsby, who is African American, were among those who took to streets in the city’s south-east section to demonstrate against his detention on Monday evening by city officers who were responding to a call alleging suspicious activity outside a bank.
Footage filmed by a friend showed Goolsby yelling and screaming as he was manhandled by two officers, who twisted his arms behind his back and placed their knees on his body to keep him on the ground. “I’m not resisting,” he said, as one officer appeared to prepare to handcuff him.
The friend, who was identified in the clip as Mike, posted the video on Twitter on Monday evening. He wrote that the pair had been “harassed and assaulted because ‘someone felt uncomfortable around us’ at the bank”. The footage showed that Mike was also detained by officers after they ordered him to step back. Officials claimed he was “interfering with police”. Neither man was officially arrested.
Lieutenant Sean Conboy of the metropolitan police department said in an emailed statement that the call to police claimed that “three subjects may be trying to rob people at the ATM” in the area of 6th St and Pennsylvania Ave SE.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/13/jason-goolsby-protest-police-washington-dc
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