The two incidences occurred five days apart and included cell phone video footage of police in a violent encounter with a suspect.
Two separate violent encounters involving Mobile police officers that have gone viral after bystanders recorded them on cell phones will be reviewed by the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI to see if excessive force occurred, Mobile Police Chief Paul Prine said Thursday.
The officer involved in that altercation, Prine said, did not have his body camera on at the time of the altercation, which is a violation of the agency’s policies. An ACCEL spokeswoman said that federal laws prevent the school from providing information about the incident “as one of our scholars was involved.”
But what was not caught on the video, Prine and others have said, is 36-year-old Beezer Dubose Jr. allegedly grabbing Officer Paul Callegari by his testicles and continuing to latch on, resulting in an injury. Dubose was arrested and faces felony assault charges. “I know the Mobile Police Department has a longstanding policy of not releasing body-worn camera footages until the case is certainly sent to a grand jury,” Prine said. “What is important to know is body worn cameras are considered material evidence both for prosecution and defense. We have to preserve the evidence.
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