As motorist Clifford Owensby was pushed into the pavement, he asked for anyone who could hear him: 'Can y'all call the real police, please?'
Police in Ohio forcibly pulled a paraplegic man out of his vehicle and threw him to the ground, despite his repeated appeals and him saying he has no use of his legs, according to body-camera video released Friday.
"No you're not, no you're not, you're not going to touch me. You are definitely not going to touch me," he can be heard saying in the video. "There will be a lawsuit if you put your hands on me for no reason, bro." Owensby asked officers to call their supervisor before they unbuckled him and appeared to drag him out by his shoulders and dreadlocks.As officers pressed him to the pavement, one put his knee into his back as Owensby kept pleading for help.
He said he suffered scrapes from being pulled from the vehicle. He told the publication a previous back injury was re-injured.
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