A white police sergeant in Indiana is charged with 2 felonies after bodycam footage allegedly showed him stomping on the head of a handcuffed homeless Black man.
A white police sergeant in Indiana is charged with two felonies after bodycam video his department released this week was alleged to show him stomping on the head of a handcuffed homeless Black man while he was being arrested.
The police bodycam video of a forceful arrest Sept. 24 appears to show Sgt. Eric Huxley stomping on Jermaine Vaughn's face. The acting U.S. attorney for Southern Indiana, John E. Childress, said in a statement Wednesday:"The United States Attorney's Office is aware of the incident involving an IMPD officer and Jermaine Vaughn. Our office and the FBI have opened an investigation, and if the investigation reveals prosecutable violations of any federal criminal statutes, the Department will take appropriate action.
"He is very sorry about any pain caused to Mr. Vaughn as a result of his actions and the negative scrutiny upon his Department and fellow officers," he said."This incident resulted from his perception of the need to attempt a trained police technique that unfortunately struck Mr. Vaughn in an unintended area of his body."
Taylor said that as part of the internal investigation, the officers' histories of use-of-force incidents will be reviewed, as well as any use-of-force incidents Huxley reviewed as a supervisor. In Shores' bodycam video, Vaughn appears to tell an officer,"Nobody cares what you do anymore," multiple times before an officer appears to tells him to lean back and pushes Vaughn in the upper chest multiple times.
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