Police Chief Erika Shields said in an email that the officers elevated a “low-level” encounter but the decision to charge them was “political jockeying.'
Atlanta’s police chief is claiming that political motivations were behind the decision to bring criminal charges against six police officers who were seen in a video tasing and yanking a man and a woman from a car during protests in the city Saturday night—according to a report—even though the couple did not appear to be aggressive toward the officers.... [+]
The encounter, which was captured on video and widely shared Saturday night, showed officers going up to a car and violently removing the couple—breaking windows, tasing them and yanking the two out of the car before forcing them to the ground and handcuffing the two with zip ties.
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