“For two years, they’ve done everything they can to keep this video from coming out. Now it’s out and the people can see the truth with their own eyes,” attorney Roderick Van Daniel said about footage of a police dog attack in Sheffield.
Police in a small northwest Alabama city sicced a K-9 on an unarmed Black man on the front porch of his home two years ago, newly released body camera footage reveals.
Civil rights attorneys representing Long, the Sheffield man who was bitten by the police dog, released the footage this week. The attorneys, Daniels and Roderick Van Daniel, say the bodycam footage backs up Long’s claims that the Sheffield officers assaulted him and arrested him without probable cause. Van Daniel argued that the resisting arrest charge is invalid because Long had not committed any crime.
Officers approach Long and ask whether the porch he was standing on was in fact his property, the bodycam footage shows.“What are you doing, bro?” Long asks in the video.
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