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By Hannah Knowles and Meryl Kornfield
April 15, 2021 at 2:02 p.m. PDT
An Army sergeant and instructor in South Carolina was charged Wednesday with third-degree assault after a video captured him shoving a young Black man and saying he was “in the wrong neighborhood,” authorities said.
Obviously, he just attacked some random black youth because he hates all blacks. The confrontation from earlier this week near Columbia, S.C., sparked a public outcry, and protesters crowded Wednesday on the sidewalk outside the home of the soldier, 42-year-old Jonathan Pentland, who is White. The video stoked long-standing concerns about harassment faced by Black Americans, and law enforcement and Army officials condemned Pentland’s behavior as “disturbing” and as bringing “disrespect” on Fort Jackson, the large training center where he was stationed.
Jonathan Pentland Suspended by Army As Sergeant Charged with Assaulting Black Man
On 4/16/21 at 3:03 AM EDT
Jonathan Pentland, the army sergeant who was captured on video harassing a young Black man in South Carolina, has been suspended by military leaders pending an investigation.
Footage went viral of Army Sergeant Jonathan Pentland confronting the man who was walking in front of his home near Columbia in Richland County.
Pentland is seen threatening him with violence, at one point, shoving the young man hard in the shoulder, causing him to almost fall to the ground after telling him to leave the neighborhood.
A US Army soldier charged with assaulting a black man outside his South Carolina home for being âin the wrong neighborhoodâ has been suspended from his instructor duties by authorities at Fort Jackson.
Jonathan Pentland, 42, whose assault on the black man on Monday went viral, was charged with third-degree assault and battery in the incident which sparked Black Lives Matter protests at his doorstep.
Fort Jackson, the U.S. Armyâs largest basic training facility, wrote on Twitter Thursday evening that the Richland County Sheriff’s Department “transferred Sgt. 1st Class Jonathan Pentland to Fort Jackson authorities late yesterday evening.”
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