Atlanta
Officer Shocks Scholar on College Bus With Taser
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A highschool scholar obtained lit up with a Taser throughout a tense encounter with a cop on an Atlanta college bus … and the disturbing second was caught on digital camera.
The clip reveals issues spiraling quick — 18-year-old Lanier Johnson-Hunt refuses to get off the college bus, regardless of repeated warnings from a faculty useful resource officer that he’ll be tased … and after a short scuffle, the menace turns actual … with the Taser deployed at point-blank vary, proper on the teenager’s chest, leaving him screaming in ache.
Fulton County Colleges declare the chaos kicked off after a brand new bus driver thought the teenager didn’t belong on the bus with different Langston Hughes Excessive College college students — including they’re absolutely investigating the confrontation, which occurred final Thursday, in accordance with WANF-TV.
Lanier, in the meantime, tells native media he’s livid — slamming the officer for tasing youngsters after they’re alleged to be defending them — and he’s now employed high-profile civil rights lawyer Harry Daniels, who says his shopper was simply making an attempt to get residence to assist look after his autistic brother.
The unnamed officer has been taken off energetic responsibility whereas the incident is beneath investigation.
