*Six Atlanta police officers have been charged after pulling two Atlanta University Center students out of a car, smashing its windows and using a stun gun during an arrest amid protests over the death of George Floyd.
CBS 46 cameras captured the officer’s use of excessive force on 22-year-old Morehouse graduate Messiah Young and his girlfriend, 20-year-old Spellman student Teniyah Pilgrim.
Here’s more from blavity.com:
Teniyah was tased and yanked from the vehicle and slammed to the ground and cuffed. Officers busted out the driver’s side window and began excessively tasing Messiah.
Messiah was then yanked from the car to the ground and cuffed. He says police punched him about 10 times while he was on the ground.
Young was charged with fleeing the scene and driving on an expired license, but Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms ordered those charges to be dropped.
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Here is the video. On LIVE TV the APD just broke car windows, slashed tires, tazed both passengers and arrested both passengers for NOTHING. RIPPED THEM OUT OF THER CAR. #AtlantaRiots #ATLFORUS #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/9XFDEdq7qr
— black lives matter (@imactuallynina) May 31, 2020
Attorney Paul L. Howard, Jr. announced charges against the following officers:
Lonnie Hood – 2 counts of aggravated assault for using his Taser and one count of simple battery
Willie Sauls – one count of aggravated assault for pointing his Taser and one count of criminal damage to property for damaging the car
Ivory Streeter – one count of aggravated assault for the user of a Taser and one count of pointing or aiming a gun
Mark Gardner – aggravated assault for using his Taser
Armond Jones – one count of aggravated battery and one count of pointing or aiming a gun
Roland Claud – one count of criminal damage to property for damaging the car
Streeter and Gardner were reportedly fired on Sunday.
JUST IN: We just got the photos of all of the officers charged for use of excessive force on 2 college students: https://t.co/esNfdnqOgM pic.twitter.com/U68Nsg1Jgc
— WSB-TV (@wsbtv) June 2, 2020
Taniyah and Messiah spoke out about the graphic video showing Atlanta police dragging them from their car, peep the GMA clip below:
“I thought [we] were going to die.” College students Taniyah Pilgrim and Messiah Young speak out after graphic video shows Atlanta police using stun guns and dragging them from their car during protest. https://t.co/nYkiImeO9R pic.twitter.com/JxzqGth72O
— Good Morning America (@GMA) June 2, 2020
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