An Alabama police officer has been placed on leave after a video showed her arresting a handcuffed man and hitting him with a stun gun.
The unidentified cop, from the Reform Police Department in Pickens County, was seen on camera swearing at a black man while he was handcuffed on Saturday.
District Attorney Andy Hamlin said the man, wearing a white t-shirt, gray sweats and a baseball hat, was being arrested on a trafficking fentanyl charge.
The female police officer shouts at the cuffed man to get down and lie on the front of the vehicle, with his face down.
As she begins to go through the man’s pockets, she holds a stun gun to his back.
With his body lying against the front of the car, the police officer tells him to ‘stay still’
She screams: ‘Shut the f**k up.’ The man can be heard whimpering and crying as he repeatedly says in pain: ‘Oh my God’
With his body lying against the front of the car, the police officer tells him to ‘stay still.’
The man then responds: ‘I ain’t doing s**t, bro. I got a gun right there.’
The laughing officer grabs the gun that is in the handcuffed man’s pocket, before saying ‘oh yeah,’ and deploying the stun gun into his back.
She screams: ‘Shut the f**k up.’ The man can be heard whimpering and crying as he repeatedly says in pain: ‘Oh my God.’
The cop continues, saying: ‘Do you want it again?’ He cries, as she says: ‘Shut your b***h a** up.’
Reform police Chief Richard Black and Mayor Melody Davis said they were aware of the video, which has circulated on social media.
They called it a ‘citizen’s arrest’ and confirmed it took place on Saturday.
The statement read: ‘The Reform Police Department is aware of a video circulating involving a citizen’s arrest on December 2.
The cop continues, saying: ‘Do you want it again?’ He cries, as she says: ‘Shut your b***h a** up’
‘The department is in the process of turning over all materials related to this arrest to the Alabama State Bureau of Investigation and has requested a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding the arrest.
‘In accordance with City Policy, the officer involved has been placed on administrative leave while the investigation is conducted.’
People on social media were outraged by the arrest video.
One person wrote: ‘ This gotta be a joke. This can not be real.’
Another added: ‘Then look how she talked to him wtf.’ A third said: ‘He’s in handcuffs. Sue em. Have her b*** fired.
And another social media user said: ‘This is so uncalled for her to do this… I pray & hope something be done about this cause if we as the people in Pickens County continue to let this behavior go from these supposedly cops they’re going to continue to do what they are doing & her.
‘Like so many others DO NOT fit the description to protect & serve no human,being jus discussing to treat someone like that. Plain a** low down.’