AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Austin police are looking into an incident downtown after a video showed a mounted officer grabbing a man’s cellphone as he filmed and then another officer spraying the man with what appeared to be pepper spray or mace.
Austin police say they’re aware of the Sunday morning incident and are “conducting a review to determine if the officers’ conduct is compliant with our policy.”
Jericho Tucker of Los Angeles, who posted video of the incident on the site YouTube, tells the Austin American-Statesmen (http://atxne.ws/1G4taTr ) the video starts about 20 seconds after police tackled a man. Officers then can be seen telling a crowd to get back. At that point, the officer takes the phone of a different man in the crowd.
Police didn’t respond to a request for more information.
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MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) _ A police officer in suburban Dallas has been placed on administrative leave after video surfaced showing him manhandling a teenage girl in a swimsuit after officers were called to a disturbance at a community pool.
Police in McKinney responded to the disturbance Friday evening at the pool that’s part of a residential community. A caller had complained that several teens didn’t have permission to use the pool and refused to leave. Several other callers complained that the teens had started fighting.
One of the responding officers was placed on administrative leave after the video showed him throwing the 14-year-old to the ground, facedown and appearing to pin her with his knees. He also cursed at the crowd and at one point had pointed his gun at two other teens.