A routine traffic stop in Northeast Ohio ended with a white police officer pummeling a black man with his fists as he was lying on the ground. Video captured by a bystander on Saturday and posted to Facebook shows a man, identified by Euclid police as 25-year-old Richard Hubbard III, lying on his back in the street as an officer straddles Hubbard’s chest and slams his head into the pavement. The officer then squats on Hubbard’s stomach and delivers more than a dozen blows to Hubbard’s face and head as another officer helps restrain the man. It’s unclear from video how much Hubbard, 25, of Cleveland, was resisting when he was being punched. WITNESS VIDEO SHARED ON FACEBOOK:

Source: Huffington Post August 15, 2017 18:41 UTC