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New Video Shows Police Kicking Handcuffed Black Teen in Tulsa After Arrest for Jaywalking

HeadlineJun 15, 2020

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, new video has emerged showing a white police officer kicking a Black teenager as he sat handcuffed in a patrol car, then pulling the child from the vehicle and throwing him violently against the pavement. The boy was one of two African American teens detained by police on June 4 for allegedly “improperly walking along the roadway” along a quiet residential street with no sidewalk.

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