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GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. – Body camera footage released Tuesday shows Glynn County constabulary tasering a antheral with autism who is nonverbal astatine slightest six times.
Police said officers were called astir 8:30 Friday nighttime astir a antheral walking successful traffic. Callers said the antheral was carrying a weapon, screaming and hitting himself successful the caput adjacent the Dollar General store connected Stafford Avenue successful Brunswick.
A spokesperson said the responding deputies didn’t cognize the antheral had autism erstwhile they arrived, but adjacent aft the antheral had dropped the metallic entity successful his manus and radical successful the country shouted astir his intelligence wellness condition, deputies continued to usage unit erstwhile helium ignored calls to get connected the ground.
The assemblage camera video starts with officers arriving adjacent a engaged roadworthy wherever Rajon Cherry is walking without a garment oregon shoes and carrying immoderate benignant of metallic object, aboriginal described arsenic a wrench oregon crowbar.
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Cherry begins walking successful the officer’s absorption arsenic the serviceman yells “Drop it!”
The serviceman past fires a Taser astatine Cherry’s thorax and the metallic entity falls to the ground. The serviceman past tells him to get connected the crushed but helium continues lasting and walking towards the officer.
Another serviceman arrives and the 2 effort to get Cherry connected the ground. The 2nd serviceman past uses his Taser connected Cherry again arsenic helium screams successful pain.
Officers effort to physically bring him down but erstwhile again Cherry gets distant earlier he’s deed with a 3rd circular of electricity.
A small much than a infinitesimal aft the responding serviceman archetypal saw Cherry, bystanders commencement shouting astir Cherry’s intelligence health.
“He has intelligence health! He don’t know!” 1 onlooker screams.
A 2nd serviceman said helium attempted to alteration the code of dependable successful an effort to deescalate things.
“Get connected the ground! We volition get you help!” helium tin beryllium heard saying.
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Christine Cauffield of LSF Health said intelligence wellness clinicians who respond with instrumentality enforcement are the champion enactment to assistance place if idiosyncratic whitethorn person a intelligence wellness contented and calm the situation.
“The clinician offers hope, offers a reassuring dependable and assorted objective interventions to assistance that idiosyncratic consciousness safe,” Cauffield said.
In a report, constabulary said they were acrophobic astir Cherry walking successful the roadway adjacent traffic.
The video shows an serviceman yet tackling Cherry to the crushed and putting him successful handcuffs.
Before placing Cherry successful a car, the dependable of a Taser is heard erstwhile again.
Cherry was treated for his injuries astatine the infirmary and released. He is not facing immoderate transgression charges.
The officers progressive were treated for insignificant injuries arsenic a effect of the altercation, according to the department.
“I commend the officers for utilizing less-lethal unit and their quality to work the terrain arsenic the lawsuit unfolded, preventing nonaccomplishment of beingness oregon superior wounded to anyone involved,” said Chief of Police Jacques Battiste.
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This incidental is presently nether administrative reappraisal by the Glynn County Police Department.
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