Police Investigate Incident Where Officer Appeared To Use Knee To Restrain Suspect
Allentown, Pa., police released a video showing police subduing a man. Part of the video shows an officer placing a knee to the man's neck, drawing comparisons to the George Floyd incident.
by Brakkton Booker
Jul 14, 2020
3 minutes
Officials in Allentown, Pa., have released a roughly ten-minute surveillance video showing officers subduing and arresting a man in front of a local hospital on Monday evening.
The man ends up face-down on the ground, and as two officers pin the man's arm behind his back, a third officer kneels on his neck.
The release of the footage came days after activists tweeted , which has been viewed hundreds of thousand of times.
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