Kilatmedia.com – Footage Shows Two Crawford County Deputies and Mulberry Police Officer Beating Randall Worcester. A video that involves three officers has been circulating on social networks, and the Arkansas State Police has now launched an investigation into the situation.
Two police officers and police officers in Arkansas are under investigation after a video circulated online that shows a violent arrest in which a man was defeated by the three officials responsible for enforcing the law.
The video was taken in the Kountry Xpress in Mulberry, Arkansas, and shows multiple agents of the law at the top of the suspect that they were supposedly using excessive strength.
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The officer and the deputies who were involved in the recording have been identified as Mulberry Thell Riddle, Deputy Levi White and Deputy Zack King.
The Crawford Country Sheriff’s Office announced that the Arkansas State Police were requested to carry out an investigation into the incident and that the two agents involved were suspended pending the result of the investigation and added that they will take the appropriate measures in the matter .
The Mulberry Police Department issued a statement regarding the incident: “The city of Mulberry and the Mulberry Police Department are aware of the video that circulates in social networks that involve one of our officers. The Arkansas State Police investigating the incident. The officer is on administrative license waiting for the result of the investigation. The city of Mulberry and the Mulberry Police Department take these investigations very seriously and hold all its officers for their actions for their actions for their actions We will take the appropriate measures at the end of the investigation. ”
According to Sheriff Jimmy Damante of the Sheriff’s Office of Crawford County, the Alma Police was called to the convenience store on Sunday morning with respect to a man who made terrorist threats to one of the employees.
Randall Worcester, 27, from South Carolina, allegedly spit the employee of the convenience store and then proceeded to make threats, and said “his face cut.”
Police declared that Worcester went on a bicycle towards departure 20 in Mulberry and that is where Mulberry officer and the deputies could reach it.
The conversation began in a quiet and civil way, but a Sheriff said that the man supposedly began to attack one of the deputies and pushed him to the ground while he hit the back of his head. This is what leads to what is shown in the video.
The reports indicate that Worcester was taken to the hospital to receive treatment and was discharged, then imprisoned in Van Buren.
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According to the Sheriff Damante, the man faces charges of terrorist threat, resistance to arrest, second degree aggression, invasion, aggravated assault and in possession of a crime instrument.
When we communicated with Bill Sadler, the Public Information officer of the Arkansas State Police for a statement on the situation, he declared that “the Arkansas State Police Criminal Division has opened an investigation.”
Arkansas State Police investigation will be limited to the use of physical force by the officer and the deputies. When the investigation is completed, the case will be submitted to the fiscal lawyer of Crawford County who will be the person to determine whether or not the laws of Arkansas considered the use of force by the officers.
Footage Shows Two Crawford County Deputies and Mulberry Police Officer Beating Randall Worcester
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The details in the investigation are limited, but we will update with more information as soon as available.