Four police officers from a Phoenix suburb have been put on paid administrative leave after video showed them beating an unarmed man last month, the Mesa Police Department said. Moments later, the officers have Johnson backed up into a corner near an elevator, then take him down. “When the person didn’t sit down, our officers then engaged in use of force to make him sit down,” Batista told the newspaper. The video released Tuesday was recorded by a surveillance camera in the apartment complex and does not contain audio. “This is no way represents the whole work that is done every day,” Batista told 12 News, of the newly released video.

Source: Washington Post June 06, 2018 17:10 UTC