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Body-Cam Footage Showing DC Police Officer With Knee, Elbow Across Suspect's Neck Released Body-Cam Footage Showing DC Police Officer With Knee, Elbow Across Suspect's Neck Released
Body-Cam Footage Showing DC Police Officer With Knee, Elbow Across Suspect's Neck Released Body-cam footage has been released as a part of an ongoing investigation into a DC officer's use of force.  On June 29, an officer, who had just witnessed what looked like a drug transaction, chased after a man on foot and struggled with him to the ground, according to Metropolitan Police.  Officers attempted to handcuff the man as he lay on his stomach and repeatedly asked him to spit out whatever drugs he hid in his mouth, according to the department's footage.  The body-cam footage of the present officers was reviewed in an internal affairs investigation, in which the dep…

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by AJ Goldbloom