The two Allentown, Pennsylvania, police officers who appear on a video showing one of them kneeling on a man's neck outside a hospital won't face any charges, prosecutors say.
"I have concluded that there is absolutely no evidence to support filing criminal charges against either of the Allentown police officers involved in this incident," Lehigh County District Attorney James Martin said in statement Friday.
The man was treated and released from the hospital the following day, police and the district attorney said.He was identified by the district attorney but CNN is not naming him. "I am satisfied that given [his] obvious intoxication and his actions, he was clearly a danger to himself and potentially to others," Martin said.
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