First published at 17:08 UTC on December 29th, 2018.
Colin Flaherty (Author of Don't Make the Black Kids Angry) Commentary News Video "NAACP Find No Misconduct in HPD’s Actions after Controversial Tazer Incident" Police body camera hostility chimp out sign summons shut down party noise …
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Colin Flaherty (Author of Don't Make the Black Kids Angry) Commentary News Video "NAACP Find No Misconduct in HPD’s Actions after Controversial Tazer Incident" Police body camera hostility chimp out sign summons shut down party noise complaint
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WVIR) - A Harrisonburg woman is recovering after being tazed and arrested last week, when police interrupted a gathering at her apartment.
Police officers were responding to a noise complaint when Melissa Duncan was tazed, as you can see in the Harrisonburg Police Department body camera footage. The incident was also captured by Melissa’s wife on her phone.
Duncan was released from police custody on bail that was posted by Nexus Services.
Nexus says they are funding her legal defense, and that the behavior of the police officers who responded cannot be tolerated.
“That’s just not acceptable and if we allow that to happen in this case it will happen over and over again and all of us will be worse off because our rights won’t be protected. We have to stand up and fight this now because this needs to change so that people in Harrisonburg can be safe from police violence and misconduct,” said CEO of Nexus Mike Donovan. “The reason it’s so serious is because Melissa’s rights were violated, I mean we have a video that shows police officers grabbing her throwing her to the ground, two officers tazing her.”
The Harrisonburg Rockingham NAACP claims to have seen full footage of the incident, provided by Harrisonburg Police Department, and did not find wrongdoing with the actions of the officers.
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