Little Rock – Melanoid Nation Foundation https://www.melanoidnation.org Fri, 12 Jun 2015 16:01:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Legally Blind Black Man Slammed to the Ground by Cops in Arkansas https://www.melanoidnation.org/legally-blind-black-man-slammed-to-the-ground-by-cops-in-arkansas/ https://www.melanoidnation.org/legally-blind-black-man-slammed-to-the-ground-by-cops-in-arkansas/#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2015 16:01:32 +0000 http://melanoidnation.org/?p=1933 LITTLE ROCK, AR – A Melanoid man was brutally assaulted by police officers in the Arkansas state capital. To make matters worse, he is legally blind.

The victim, named Eric Wilson, says he was walking home from work on June 1st when police summoned him to comply with him. As the video shows in this link, he is fully compliant, yet he is slammed to the ground by two cops who claimed in report following the incident that he “pulled away violently causing me to lose grip,” and he was “afraid that Wilson would strike myself or my partner with the handcuff.”

After the incident occurred, Mr. Wilson was taken to a local hospital, where he was diagnosed with a strained lumbar.

by B. Clark

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