A Pittsburgh Police Officer is on Desk Duty While an Incident Suggesting Police Brutality Captured on Video is Investigated
A police officer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is on desk duty as a result of controversial cell phone video. The officer can allegedly be seen on camera repeatedly punching a suspect and slamming him onto the ground. Two people were arrested. Suspect One was wanted on charges of alleged forgery. He had evaded police on a prior occasion and attempted to evade arrest again on Tuesday, September 19, 2017, when the phone video was captured. Suspect Two allegedly interfered with the arrest of Suspect One. The second suspect is the victim of the officer’s alleged police brutality.
The incident occurred at about 10:30 p.m. outside Pittsburg’s PPG Paints indoor arena. Police officers were approaching Suspect One. They say that he looked up at one of the officers and asked him if he was the officer he had run from before. Suspect One allegedly then tried to “bull rush” the officer. At that time, according to police, Suspect Two interfered, which resulted in the incident captured on phone video. The video shows the officer’s alleged use of brutal force, which included striking Suspect Two’s head against the pavement, according to Beth Pittinger of the Citizens Police Review Board.
Suspect One has been charged with resisting arrest and flight to avoid police apprehension. The criminal complaint also shows that Suspect Two has been charged with public drunkenness, resisting arrest, and obstructing the administration of law.
Chief Scott Schubert says that their findings of the department’s internal investigation into this incident will be shared publically. In the meantime, the officer involved remains on desk duty.
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