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Georgia Police Accused of Assaulting Former Black Panther

HeadlineMay 29, 2014

Georgia police are being accused of brutality after video emerged of an officer shoving an African-American writer and activist to the ground. Sixty-nine-year-old Dhoruba bin Wahad was being questioned by officers on his front porch. The tape shows an officer grabbing him by the wrist and pushing him down. At a rally outside the Clayton County Police Department, bin Wahad said he had been mistreated.

Dhoruba bin Wahad: “I was not out of control. I was not a flight risk. I was not cussing them out. And let’s assume that I did cuss them out. Let’s assume that I was verbally uncooperative. Let’s just assume all those things. Does that justify me being slammed on the ground while I’m sitting there after being searched?”

A former Black Panther, Dhoruba bin Wahad was wrongly imprisoned for 19 years after being convicted based on fabricated evidence in a police shooting case.

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