A former Arkansas police officer, who was arrested in the back of a patrol car in August, was arrested on a beaten video and accused of increasing attack.
Joseph Harris faced charges of attacking himself at the Craig Head County Sheriff’s office on Tuesday morning, a police false report and a third -degree battery. A jail official said he was released on a bond of 000 15,000 the same morning.
Harris, 29, was fired a day after the Junasburo Police Department when he was recorded in his patrol car camera camera, a handcuffed man, hitting the car and shouting at the car’s door against the head of Billy Lee Quorum. , When the video showed that the quorum showed himself with a square. With the seat belt, the quorum was being shifted back from a hospital at Craig Head County.
Jonas Borough’s police chief Rick Elite had earlier told NBC News that he had found the video after receiving a complaint from the County Sheriff’s office.
The department said, “The serious nature of the complaint needs immediate action.” Description In August, Elite said on the same day that he was aware of the video. “After internal review of the incident, it was decided that the officer involved, Joseph Harris, should be removed immediately.”
There was no phone number for Harris. He did not immediately respond to the messages sent to the email addresses for him. It is unclear whether he has a lawyer. He is then in court on February 28.
In the video about 12 12 minutes, the quorum, which was dressed in hospital gown and socks, slammed himself with a seat belt wrapped in his throat while the car was operating. After pulling the car, Harris opened the door and punched the quorum several times and made a clerk when he revealed the seat belt from the quorum’s neck. Harris also slapped the car’s door against the head of the car.
