Police authorities in Greenville, South Carolina are reviewing video of
an arrest at a Walmart store Saturday afternoon where an officer can be
seen repeatedly punching a suspect in the head as horrified shoppers
begged him to stop. In cell phone footage provided to WSPA, police
officers can be seen surrounding a man lying on the floor in a prone
position. According to the police report, the man had been acting
erratically in front of the store and appeared to be intoxicated or
under the influence of drugs. The man told a responding deputy “I’m
911,” before entering the store at which time officers decided to take
him into custody.
According to Greenville County Master Deputy
Jonathan Smith, a second deputy tasered the man when he resisted arrest.
In the video, officers can be seen wrestling with the man on the ground
as one officer repeatedly punches the man in the head as one shopper
can be heard saying, “Please don’t punch him like that. Please don’t.
Don’t punch him no more.” According to one witness, he thought the
police went too far.
“There were a lot of women in tears saying
‘hey, stop stop,”said David Chimera. “There was no call for that, I
don’t know why they did it.”
According to authorities the man, whose identity was not released, was taken to a Greenville hospital for observation.
Smith
said the investigators are reviewing the cell phone videos as well as
security camera footage from Walmart and would have no comment until the
review was complete.
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