{UAH} Atlanta cops recorded beating suspect claim he was likely ‘preparing to smoke crack’
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Atlanta cops recorded beating suspect claim he was likely 'preparing to smoke crack'
Rickey Williams was captured on a cellphone video being beaten by police.
(ATLANTA POLICE DEPARTMENT)The Atlanta police officers recorded beating a man in public claim he was about to smoke crack — even though they didn't find the drug on him.
Activists have called for charges against the three policemen, who were recorded on a cellphone video punching, shoving and restraining Rickey Williams on June 22. They said the use of force was unnecessary as the suspect laid on the ground, taking punches to the head.
Officer Quinton Green wrote in a police report, obtained by the Atlanta Journal Constitution, that he and two other officers saw Williams "possibly preparing to smoke crack cocaine."
Williams "dropped to the ground and started swinging his arms and kicking wildly" when they asked him to put his hands behind his back, Green wrote in the report.
Green is seen on the 16-second video punching Williams several times in the head and neck.
He claims had no other option after an unsuccessful stun gun shock by another officer, Stephenson Camille.
In his own report also obtained by the Journal Constitution, Camille said he used a Taser on Williams to control the situation after a crowd of 20 to 30 people started to gather.
"I feared that the longer this tussle continued with Mr. Williams, the angrier and more uncontrollable the crowd would become so I deployed my city-issued Taser," Camille says in the report.
Williams was charged with obstruction. A mug shot of him after the incident shows his right eye swollen shut with a fresh-looking bruise on his cheek.
Medical workers at Grady Memorial Hospital said Williams' swollen eye didn't look recent enough to come from the police scuffle, Green wrote in his report.
The officer has been put on administrative leave while Atlanta police investigate the incident, the Journal Constitution reported.
The cops have come under fire for what advocates believe is an excessive use of force.
(FACEBOOK)Green said in his report that he found steel wool Williams. But while the material is often used in crack smoking, the police didn't find any crack or a device.
Sir Maejor Page, spokesman for Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta, told the Journal Constitution he wanted criminal charges against Green.
Page said the outrage over the incident wasn't about race — Williams and all three officers are black — but about excess police force.
"We know that Atlanta has a problem with police brutality," Page he told the newspaper. "Those who are the most vulnerable are the ones who get picked on."
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