And in news from California, a video of police officers pinning down a disabled African-American man has gone viral. The video shows San Francisco police kneeling on the man’s prosthetic leg. Police say they received a 911 call about a man “waving sticks around,” and restrained him after he refused to drop the sticks and walked into traffic. But the “sticks” were apparently actually the man’s crutches. The man repeatedly asks for the crutches back, saying, “I use these to walk.” The video shows onlookers pleading with police to stop pressing on the man’s prosthetic leg.
Onlooker: “What are you doing? Oh, my god! Wait, you’re on his prosthetic leg? You’re on his prosthetic leg! You’re on his prosthetic leg! Stop! Stop!”