‘I understand the outrage’: North Carolina police chief reassigns officer seen striking a woman during arrest The officer was intentional about where the strikes were made,” police said, noting it was “consistent with training.”Ĭharlotte-Mecklenburg Police are investigating after a video shows an officer repeatedly hitting a woman. An officer “struck the female subject seven times with knee strikes and 10 closed fist strikes to the peroneal nerve in the thigh to try to gain compliance. Pierre continued to resist arrest, lying down on her hands and ignoring verbal commands, according to police. The officers informed the two people, identified as Anthony Lee and Pierre, they were under arrest. Police said both Lee and Pierre resisted arrest, and in the struggle that followed “the female individual struck an officer multiple times.” Police said two officers on patrol Monday afternoon saw two people smoking marijuana at a bus stop. “This strike occurred during the initial encounter at the bus stop with the responding officers prior to the struggle on the ground involving several other officers.” Pierre’s face one time,” the department said. “We can now confirm based on interviews and witness accounts that an officer, in response to being physically assaulted, returned a strike to Ms. In a statement posted on X, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said Thursday evening an ongoing investigation shows Christina Pierre striking the first officer “multiple times in the face as she is resisting arrest.” Police in North Carolina confirmed an officer who was involved in an initial encounter with a woman, who was later seen on video getting struck 17 times by a second officer, hit her in the face but claimed the woman assaulted him first.
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