Dec 5, 2023
Cop Uses Stun Gun On Handcuffed Black Man Who Was Complying & Threatens Him During Arrest
Cop Uses Stun Gun On Handcuffed Black Man Who Was Complying & Threatens Him During Arrest
- 9 minutes
An Alabama cop decides to
tase a handcuffed man,
told him she was going to do it again and
still arrested him.
According to the update, that individual,
that cop, is now on leave.
[00:00:19]
Here's the video.
>> Speaker 2: Stand up.
[00:00:36]
Right there on the front of the car.
>> [CROSSTALK]
[00:01:11]
>> Speaker 1: Now, officer,
since you're big and bad,
put up the picture full mass.
Many outlets are going to tell you that
this officer was engaged
in a lawful arrest.
[00:01:31]
They will neglect to mention
her name because the official
report from Reform Alabama
did not mention the name.
But we have the name.
On December 2nd in Pickens County,
Alabama,
[00:01:50]
Reform Police Officer Dana Elmore,
based on reporting from Sportskeeda,
detained, cuffed and
tased, a young black male
identified as 24 year old Micah Johnson.
[00:02:08]
He was reportedly trying to
fix a flat tire on the side of
the road when Officer Elmore
forcefully took the man
into custody for
allegedly acting suspicious.
Elmore is now on leave,
according to Al.com,
[00:02:28]
an Alabama reporting agency.
While authorities investigate a weekend
arrest captured on video in Reform,
Alabama showing a handcuffed
man being hit with a stun gun.
The video begins with
a white female officer from
the Reform Police Department
ordering the black male to stand
[00:02:47]
up after he was handcuffed on
the roadway in Pickens County.
So then she tells him to lay down in
front of the vehicle, which he does.
He complies immediately.
He puts his face directly into
the vehicle on top of it.
[00:03:06]
The vehicle obviously is
seen directly in the video.
The officer then holds a stun gun to
his back as if he's trying to run away.
He's not.
She goes through his pockets.
She then tells him,
stay still, he's not moving.
[00:03:25]
At which point he says, quote,
I ain't doing-ish, bro.
I got a gun right there.
Telling her that he has a gun.
It is constitutional to have a gun,
especially in Alabama, right?
Not if you are a 24 year
old African American male.
[00:03:44]
There's more.
The officer laughs as she
retrieves the gun and says, yeah.
She then deploys the stun gun
directly into the man's back,
telling him to shut up.
As he screams, the man begins to
cry repeatedly saying, my God.
[00:04:07]
The officer then says,
do you want it again?
As the man continues to cry,
shut your b ass up,
she says, that's where the video ended.
[00:04:22]
The video has been shared
thousands of times.
Now here's what I'm going to do.
Put up the picture of the officer again.
That officer needs to be
arrested immediately for
[00:04:39]
violation of oath of office
because I promise you,
she lied on the police report, for
assaulting an individual while in custody,
for felony use of a taser.
That's to get started.
[00:04:55]
DA, you have work to do,
politically speaking.
Put up the mayor.
Now the district attorney
is investigating this case.
Received it recently.
The mayor, Melody Davis, is pictured here.
[00:05:15]
That is your mayor.
Her and the Reform Police Chief,
Richard Black, not pictured,
sent out a joint statement on Monday
acknowledging, they are aware of
the video involving a, quote, citizens
arrest that took place on Saturday.
[00:05:32]
The department is in the process of
turning over all materials related to this
arrest, they said, to the Alabama
State Bureau of Investigation and
has requested a thorough investigation
into the circumstances surrounding
the arrest, the statement said.
[00:05:48]
Police and city officials referred
questions about the arrest
to the 24th Judicial Circuit
District Attorney Andy Hamlin.
Hamlin could release
more information today.
[00:06:04]
The Pickens County Jail
identifies the man as Johnson.
He is being held on a $500,000 bond.
The jail website list charges of
obstructing governmental operations,
resisting arrests, marijuana possession,
[00:06:21]
drug trafficking, and
being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Some of his friends and
family showed up at the Reform Municipal
building Monday afternoon to protest.
This is a developing story.
This is a developing story.
So according to the narrative,
the man was changing a tire.
[00:06:40]
The officer said he looked suspicious,
decided to engage.
If there's no reason to engage,
none of this counts in a court of law,
okay?
This is why it benefits
the community to have
[00:06:59]
officers who engage citizens lawfully.
So now this has happened.
The taxpayers of Reform Alabama will end
up footing the bill because regardless
of the interaction,
it is clear that the man is handcuffed.
[00:07:16]
It is clear that the man
is under the authority and
is compliant to law enforcement.
It is clear that the officer
utilized the taser unlawfully.
All of these are evident before us,
regardless of guilt or
[00:07:34]
innocence, which has to be
adjudicated inside of a courtroom,
not administered by rogue
officers like this one.
I want to say thank you to the elected
official in Alabama who alerted me to
this immediately.
I appreciate the service that you provide.
[00:07:51]
We will continue to stay on this story and
bring you developments as they come.
Sharon, thoughts here?
>> Speaker 4: It's tough to get
me to furl my brow, Dr Richey.
This one did it, okay?
I don't even want to hear about the ABI,
[00:08:08]
Alabama Bureau of
Investigations on this case.
Really should be the FBI as we really
saw an act of domestic terrorism,
and I actually do mean that.
I actually do mean that.
And I don't know what's taking so long for
them to get out all the footage out and
give up the name.
[00:08:24]
Obviously, your crack team got it.
You'd have to dropbox
that to me immediately.
If I'm the mayor and the chief better
be at my house tonight to discuss it.
That's how ignorant this is.
Wow, I don't know why you'd put
someone like that on leave.
They should both be,
[00:08:40]
even though his charges seem
trumped up $500,000 bond, okay?
She need to be right up there with
him in the general population.
>> Speaker 1: Yeah, and here's the thing.
The $500,000 bond is so ironic, but
indicative of what they
were attempting to do,
because you got people who are arrested,
incarcerated currently for murder.
[00:08:58]
They don't have a $500,000 bond.
Maybe quarter of a million,
250,000, 300,000.
That is surety to come back to
court is what your bond is for.
Surety to come back to court.
So $500,000 of a bond,
that high speak to the nature,
[00:09:13]
I believe,
of what the interaction was about.
We will bring you updates
as they come naturally.
Now Playing (Clips)
Episode
Podcast
Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey: December 5, 2023
Hosts: Dr. Rashad RicheySharon Reed
- 9 minutes
- 7 minutes
- 7 minutes
- 3 minutes
- 7 minutes
- 10 minutes
- 8 minutes
- 3 minutes