Bodycam footage shows Black paraplegic man violently manhandled by Ohio police

Brut America

"I'm a paraplegic, sir."   He said he couldn't exit his car. The police dragged him out pulling his hair. Clifford Owensby, a Black paraplegic man, has now filed a complaint against the police department of Dayton, Ohio ...

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00:00I cannot step out on my paraplegic board.

00:03I cannot leave my circle.

00:04I'm a paraplegic, sir.

00:06Get out of the car, get out of the car!

00:08I'm a paraplegic!

00:09Ow!

00:10You have to get off!

00:11Ow!

00:12Ow!

00:13Ow!

00:14Ow!

00:15Ow!

00:16Ow!

00:17Ow!

00:18Ow!

00:19Ow!

00:20Ow!

00:21Ow!

00:22Ow!

00:23Ow!

00:24Ow!

00:25Ow!

00:26Ow!

00:27Ow!

00:28Ow!

00:30I cannot step out of this car!

00:32I cannot step out of the car!

00:34You can cooperate and get out of the car.

00:36I'll drag you out of the car.

00:37You see your two options here?

00:39They dragged me to their vehicle.

00:42Like a dog, like trash.

00:44It was totally humiliation.

00:46It was hatred.

00:48It is purest fashion.

00:50I have never seen or witnessed anything in my life.

00:54He is very traumatized.

00:56He's in a lot of pain.

00:59We're currently working with his attorneys and following their direction on the rest of the case

01:04and how we want to be able to pursue justice for Mr. Clifford Owensby.

01:28If you look at his tone, his tone scared our client.

01:37And then it continued to escalate because the client is asking for a white shirt, meaning a supervisor.

01:45So as the officer continues to be aggressive, our client continues to be more fearful of his life,

01:54knowing about what's been happening to other African Americans throughout this nation.

02:07We had another case like this several months back, a somewhat similar case to this.

02:13If I think back to Jack Runzer, who is, he's deaf, he's mute, he has cerebral palsy.

02:21And upon him being confronted by DPD, of course, they could not communicate with him.

02:27They didn't realize that he was deaf and mute.

02:30They didn't realize that he has cerebral palsy.

02:34But they basically took at face value the words of the caller who said that this gentleman appeared to be impaired.

02:47Dayton is a great place.

02:49And we have citizens that are resilient.

02:52Dayton is a great place to live and to work and to raise a family.

02:55But just as many other communities, there's systemic racism that still exists.

03:01It has to be dealt with at face value.

03:04So hopefully this will be a learning point for the other police officers within the department.

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