An Arkansas law enforcement officer who held down a man while two others beat him during an arrest recorded on video is back on the job after he did not face any criminal charges.
FILE - Randal Worcester walks out of the Crawford County Justice Center in Van Buren, Ark., on Aug. 22, 2022. An Arkansas law enforcement officer who held down Worcester while two others beat him during an arrest recorded on video is back on the job after he did not face any criminal charges, according to authorities Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023. is back on the job after he did not face any criminal charges.
A bystander used a cellphone to record Riddle and two former Crawford County sheriff's deputies during the Aug. 21 arrest of Randal Worcester in the small town of Mulberry, about 140 miles northwest of Little Rock, near the border with Oklahoma.with civil rights violations. The video shows one of the deputies repeatedly punching and kneeing Worcester in the head before grabbing his hair and slamming him against the pavement. The other kneed him repeatedly.
“Please understand, by making this formal declaration regarding Officer Riddle, I am not making a formal statement regarding the other two involved law enforcement officers," she wrote.
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