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Photo credits: Story provided by The Associated Press A white Army non-commissioned officer depicted in a viral video accosting and shoving a Black man in a South Carolina neighborhood has been charged with third-degree assault. Jonathan Pentland, 42, was charged Wednesday and listed as detained in the Richland County jail and issued a personal recognizance bond, according to online jail records, which did not show him as having an attorney. The video, posted Monday by a woman on Facebook and shared thousands of times, shows a man, identified as Pentland, demanding that a Black man leave the...

Jonathan Pentland, a Fort Jackson Soldier, Arrested and Charged After Confrontation with Black Man This April 14, 2021, booking photo provided by the Richland County, S.C., detention center shows Jonathan Pentland, a U.S. Army staff sergeant charged with third-degree assault. (Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center via AP) 14 Apr 2021 COLUMBIA, S.C.  — A white Army non-commissioned officer depicted in a viral video accosting and shoving a Black man in a South Carolina neighborhood has been charged with third-degree assault. Jonathan Pentland, 42, was charged Wednesday and listed as detained in th...

Who is Sergeant Jonathan Pentland? Updated: Apr 15 2021, 4:50 ET Invalid Date, SERGEANT Jonathan Pentland has hit headlines across the US after appearing in a video that took the internet by storm and went viral. The Fort Jackson drill instructor has found himself in hot water with authorities - but who is he, and what is he accused of? 4 Who is Sergeant Jonathan Pentland? Jonathan Pentland is a US army first class based at Fort Jackson in Columbia. According to social media accounts connected to Pentland, he has been stationed at Fort Jackson since at least 2019 and has worked as a drill se...

Updated 4 hours ago Jonathan Pentland told the man on the street, "You're in the wrong neighborhood." A white Army non-commissioned officer depicted in a viral video accosting and shoving a Black man in a South Carolina neighborhood has been charged with third-degree assault. Jonathan Pentland, 42, was charged Wednesday and listed as detained in the Richland County jail and issued a personal recognizance bond, according to online jail records, which did not show him as having an attorney. The video, posted Monday by a woman on Facebook and shared thousands of times, shows a man, identified as...

The video, posted Monday by a woman on Facebook and shared thousands of times, shows a man, identified as Pentland, demanding that a Black man leave the neighborhood and using obscenities before threatening him with physical violence. "You're in the wrong neighborhood," Pentland, standing on the sidewalk, can be heard saying to the other man before using an expletive. "I ain't playing with you. ... I'm about to show you what I can do." According to Shirell Johnson, who posted the video, the incident happened in a subdivision of The Summit, which has a Columbia address but is technically outs...