An Alabama police officer is on leave while authorities investigate a weekend arrest captured on video in Reform showing a handcuffed man being hit with a stun gun.

The video begins with a white female officer from the Reform Police Department in Pickens County ordering the Black man to “stand up” after he was handcuffed in the roadway in Pickens County.

She then tells him to lay down on the front of a vehicle, which he does face down.

The officer then holds a stun gun to the man’s back while she goes through his pockets. She tells him to “stay still” at which point he says, “I ain’t doing shit, bro. I got a gun right there.”

The officer laughs as she retrieves the gun and says, “Oh yea.”

She then deploys the stun gun directly into the man’s back, telling him to “shut the (expletive) up” as he screams.

The man then begins to cry, repeatedly saying, “Oh my God.”

The officer then says, “Do you want it again?” as the man continues to cry. “Shut your bitch ass up,’’ the officer says

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    Reform police Chief Richard Black and Mayor Melody Davis sent out a statement Monday acknowledging they are aware of the video involving a “citizen’s arrest” that took place on Saturday.

    WTF is with the “citizen’s arrest” bullshit? She’s a cop ffs.

    ACAB

    • @[email protected]
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      272 years ago

      They arrested a citizen. The phrasing is a bit confusing because the term “citizen’s arrest” usually refers to an ordinary citizen arresting another.

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      Turns out the very apple itself is poison and they’re all “bad” from the poison being an unregulated union.

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      2 years ago

      The job of police officer has gone to the supreme court to actively defend passing on actual, qualified candidates to who know the law, just so they can hire the lowest common denominators like this cop, too.

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    Just watched the video, and what the actual fuck!? She’s clearly getting off on this. Poor guy isn’t resisting in any way and she starts to stun him after bending him over the car. Thank God this was recorded and happened during the day. Otherwise she would have gone much further.

    Edit: Grammar and wanted to add. Look at her face during the whole encounter! This is 100% a power kink and I’m 98% sure she’s a Sexual Predator. Not trying to make light of this in any way but it’s obvious she enjoys hurting others in a sadist kind of way. The way she says, “oh Ya” when finding his gun, Alabama has lax concealed carry laws. (why act like he violated some capital crimes?!) This man is at least 6’2 and strong. No way she overpowers him if he wanted to hurt her. Stunning someone on the spine is extremely dangerous and painful.

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      Thank God this was recorded and happened during the day.

      Let’s see if she actually faces any consequences for it. It seems like getting video of cops blatantly abusing their power doesn’t make much of a difference way too often.

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    162 years ago

    How many bad eggs are we up to now? I seriously see articles every single day about cops abusing, violating and torture people.

    • Phoenixz
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      To be fair: there are enormous amounts of police officers in the US, more even woord wide. Seeing a hundred abuse visors feels like an extreme amount, but in reality is about a tiny about of police officers.

      Granted, the percentage of abusive officers I. The US is way higher than in other countries but it would do you well to remember that many, maybe even most, are pretty straight shooters (pun intended) who want to make the world a little better but also just have a job and a family to come home to afterwards…

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        This would be more comforting if it seemed like there were efforts to remove these abusive cops from the force. Instead, all too often we hear of them getting put on paid leave while their “investigation” goes nowhere, or rarely they’ll get fired, just to immediately start working in the next county over.

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    Tasers are effectively handheld torture devices. Put them in the hands of cops and it’s not surprising they’d be used that way.

  • N-E-N
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    Apparently they called it a “citizens arrest”

    I’m confused, anyone have an explanation as to how an office arresting someone can be a citizens arrest

    • WhatTrees
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      122 years ago

      I think they meant “citizen*'s* arrest” as in “arrest of a citizen”. Not a citizen doing the arrest, as in “citizens arrest” .

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        Oooh, what confusing wording but yea sounds right, thx