In 2019, a black man was dragged out of his car by US police officers and beaten up because of a traffic violation. The police video remained under lock and key until 2021.
Monroe – For the second time this year, a sealed video from 2019 surfaced in the United States showing how police officers brutally attack a dark-skinned American in the state of Louisiana. An officer’s body camera shows the policeman hitting a man’s head and body 18 times with a flashlight. According to reports from the local news broadcaster WAFB9, the police had previously stopped and forcibly pulled them out of his car after a traffic violation that was not described in detail.
When the man writhes on the ground to avoid the rough treatment by the emergency services, the police officer comes in to support him with the body camera and hits the man lying on the ground several times: Aaron B. had a broken jawbone and three broken ribs from the incident , a broken wrist and a head injury from it that had to be sutured. The incident occurred in May 2019, but the video was only revealed when the police had to investigate a civil complaint by the injured US citizen 536 days after the incident. Now it has also been published in the media.
Again and again violence by US police officers: Most of the victims are black
According to information from the Aljazeera news portal, the accused had already resigned from the police force in March. Up to this point, 23 incidents in which he became violent on duty are known from his service between 2015 and 2019 alone. In 19 of these cases the violence was directed against black people. According to reports from Aljazeera, there are two further investigations against him because of similar riots against dark-skinned road users.
Just a few weeks before the incident, police officers also checked 49-year-old Ronald G. at a traffic control in Louisiana, pulled him out of his vehicle by force and brought him to the ground. In addition to physical violence, an electric shock device was also used. In this case, the victim of the police officers died during the night for reasons that have not yet been clarified. US media, including the “New York Times”, reported at the time that the police initially told the relatives that he had died in an accident in a chase with the police.
Fight against police violence: Black Lives Matter protests call for education and justice
Numerous activists in the USA have been fighting against racist violence for many years under the motto “Black Lives Matter”, also and above all on the part of the police. One of the protests with the largest number of participants in the last few months took place across the country in May. Thousands of people took to the streets on the anniversary of the brutal killing of George Floyd in the US state of Minnesota. The police officer in charge was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison for second degree murder in Minneapolis in June 2021. (Sandra Kathe)
