A self-described Missouri “cop watcher” was tackled to the ground by police officers as he filmed them responding to a call in Springfield, Missouri, last month.
Terry Rucker, a 35-year-old Black man, shared video from the Nov. 26 encounter on Facebook and YouTube and it went viral on several social media pages. Now the two Springfield Police Department officers involved are being investigated by the police department’s internal affairs unit.
Terry Rucker (Photo: Terry Rucker/Facebook)
Springfield Police Chief Paul Williams launched the internal affairs review “to determine if there was a violation of Springfield Police Department policy,” agency spokeswoman Jasmine Bailey said in an email Wednesday.
Fort Worth Weekly
By PAUL ROSENBERG
Every year since 1976, Project Censored has performed an invaluable service shedding light on the most significant news that’s somehow not fit to print. Censorship in an authoritarian society is obvious, from a distance, at least. There is a central agent or agency responsible for it, and the lines are clearly drawn. That’s not the case in America, yet some stories rarely, if ever, see the light of day, such as stories about violence against Native American women and girls, even though four out of five of them experience violence at some point in their lives, overwhelmingly at the hands of non-Native perpetrators.