An Alabama policeman has been placed on administrative leave after using a stun gun on a handcuffed man. According to WVTM, the incident took place on December 2 during a traffic stop.
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According to the outlet, a viral video has circulated showing an unknown female police officer involved in a traffic stop with a 24-year-old man named Micah Washington. The officer reportedly works at the Reform Police Department.
Jalexis Rice, Washington’s girlfriend, explained to reporters that the incident unfolded after Washington and “2 others” stopped to change a tire of the vehicle they were driving.
Rice says that’s when the unnamed officer arrived and put Washington into handcuffs. The video shows the officer then lifting Washington from the ground and ordering him to lay the upper part of his body on the hood of her police car.
The officer begins to go through Washington’s pockets as she seemingly tells him to “shush.”
“I’m not doing s**t, brother,” Washington tells the officer. “I got a gun right there; I’m not doing nothing.”
The officer then outright screams, “Oh yeah!” while removing a black object from one of Washington’s pockets.
“I’m saying, what you saying, ‘Oh yeah’ for?” Washington asks the officer.
The woman pushes her stun gun into the middle of Washington’s back, using it for an extended time.
Washington begins to cry in pain as the officer asks him, “Do you want it again?”
The woman then continues to tell him to “Shut the f**k up.”
“She tased him in the back, and she was holding it. She was just holding it there until he started crying,” Rice, who recorded the incident, reportedly told reporters at a demonstration on Monday, December 4. “When I saw it, I couldn’t do anything but cry; I couldn’t do anything but cry.”
What Happened To Micah Washington & The Unknown Alabama Police Officer?
According to WVTM, Washington was arrested and charged with “obstructing governmental operations, resisting arrest,” and marijuana possession. In addition, the 24-year-old was also hit with a drug trafficking charge and “having a gun as an ex-felon.”
TMZ reports that District Attorney Andy Hamlin has alleged that Washington was trafficking fentanyl.
AL.com adds that Washington is being held in Pickens County Jail on a $500,000 bond.
The outlet has shared a statement from Reform Police Chief Richard Black and the Mayor of Reform, Alabama, Melody Davis. According to the authorities, the department is investigating the traffic stop and subsequent arrest.
Furthermore, the statement revealed that the officer has been placed on “administrative leave while the investigation is conducted.”
“The Reform Police Department is aware of a video circulating involving an individual’s arrest on December 2.
