Footage of Police Wrongfully Tackling and Handcuffing Georgia Man Infuriates Onlookers

Recently surfaced footage of police wrongfully tackling and handcuffing a Georgia man has [...]

By Stephen Andrew

Recently surfaced footage of police wrongfully tackling and handcuffing a Georgia man has infuriated social media onlookers. In the video, White officers from the city of Valdosta are seen confronting a Black man whom they believe to be the suspect in a "suspicious activity" investigation.

They approach him as he is standing in a lot, and he tells them what he has been doing and where he came from. As the man is cooperating and speaking to one of the officers, another comes up behind him, wraps his arms around the man, and then body slams him to the ground. A crack is heard, and then other officers get involved in handcuffing him. The man cries out that the officer who slammed him into the ground "broke my ribs." The man desperately asks why the cops are arresting him, and one of the officers says it is because they have a warrant for his arrest.

It is at this moment that another one of the officers tells them that this man does not have a warrant out for his arrest, as that individual was elsewhere in the vicinity. They appear to be very confused, and of them asks, "There's two different people?" They uncuff him, and then one officer asks if they got his I.D. and ran it and if so, was "it good?" The answer to all questions was, "yeah." Scroll down to read what some heated Twitter users are saying about it.

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