LAPD Caught In Another Police Brutality Scandal (VIDEO)

by Garvey Ashhurst for Global Grind Staff

 

Surveillance video from a Tujunga, California Del Taco not far from where Michelle Jordan, 34, was stopped by police, has prompted an internal investigation into how LAPD handled her arrest.

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As reported by: NBC Los Angeles

Police say they pulled her over for allegedly using her cell phone while driving. It looks like a routine traffic stop, until Jordan gets out of her vehicle.

"She made some unwise moves," said her attorney Sy Nazif. "But certainly nothing that warranted a physical assault from the LAPD."

Moments after Jordan, of Sunland, gets out of the car, officers put her in handcuffs. After some discussion, perhaps argumentative by Jordan's own account, one of the officers throws her to the pavement, head first.

"A short time later while still handcuffed another encounter occurred between Jordan and the officers and she was taken to the ground a second time," according to a statement released by LAPD Tuesday night.

Raymond Branch was outside the Del Taco when the arrest went down.
"The first part, I believe they had a right to arrest her for resisting, but the second part was overboard," Branch said.

Jordan was arrested on suspicion of resisting arrest, but was released on her own recognizance.

SOURCE: NBC LOS ANGELES.
Photo credit: NBC News L.A.