Police in Ohio forcefully pulled a paraplegic man out of his vehicle and threw him to the ground, despite his repeated pleas and him saying that he has no use of his legs, according to body-camera vid released Friday.
The Dayton Police Department partook the vid with NBC News that shows two officers commanding driver Clifford Owensby to step out of the Audi he was driving during a marketplace stop last week.
The tape was edited, and it's not clear what befell before or after the tape.
Owensby can be heard telling the officers he is paraplegic. One of the officers said he would help him out of the auto, but the automobilist declined and asked why he was pulled over.
"I can not get out of the vehicle mister,"Owensby said.
The officer told Owensby he bore to be out of the vehicle so a canine could smell for cures, but the automobilist demurred, the tape shows.
"No you are not, no you are not, you are not going to touch me. You're clearly not going to touch me,"he can be heard saying in the tape."There will be a action if you put your hands on me for no reason, bro."
Owensby either appears to make a phone call and ask someone to come to him and film his dealings with officers.
Owensby asks officers to call their administrant before they unbuckle him and appear to drag him out by his shoulders and dreadlocks.
He screams and hourly shouts," Light help, light help!"
.As officers pressed him to the pavement, one put his knee into his rear as Owensby kept arguing for help.
At one point he screamed,"Cany' all call the real police please?"as one officer hovered to Tase him.
The officers involved haven't been correlated.
Dayton Fraternal Order of Police President JeromeA. Dix said in a statement Friday night that the officers asked for compliance and said offered to" backstop"Owensby when they were told he's paraplegic. He said the driver" continued to be verbally noncompliant," so enlarging the officers' response.
"The officers followed the law, their training, and department procedures and procedures,"he said."Sometimes the arrest of noncompliant objects isn't like, but is a necessary part of law enforcement to maintain public safety, which is one of the meat-and-potatoes gospels of our society."
Owensby didn't respond to NBC News's attempts for comment Friday, but he told the Dayton Daily News in a story published Monday,"I feel like they do n’t yea esteem me as a citizen."
He said he suffered scrapes from being pulled from the vehicle. He told the publication a prior tail injury was reinjured.
Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley said in a statement Friday,"The videotape of this police relation is really concerning to me. No matter where you live or what you look like, everyone deserves to be treated with state and respect when dealing with Dayton Police."
She said the incident was under exploration.
"Dayton remains wifely to our ongoing community- led police reform process and furnishing limpidity in situations like this,"Whaley said.
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