Video depicting a Mobile police officer hitting a handcuffed suspect does not show the whole story, the mayor’s top adviser said Tuesday.
Addressing the Mobile City Council meeting, Chief of Staff James Barber said the case remains under investigation and that Officer Paul Callegari is on administrative leave. He said the city notified the Department of Justice and that a meeting had been scheduled for later Tuesday at the FBI field office in Mobile.
“The preliminary investigation, after reviewing body camera video as well as witness testimony, is that during the arrest procedure, while he was being arrested for having marijuana, that the subject while he was grabbing the officer by his testicles,” Barber said during the council meeting. “They ended up from the vehicle to go onto the ground, where he continued to latch on to the officer’s testicles. And that’s when you see the officer striking the individual until he let go.
“Whenever confronted by active aggression, use of what they call ‘hard-hands techniques’ – which is striking, kicking or anything like that – is authorized,” he said. Several residents spoke at Tuesday’s meeting about police accountability. The Rev. Tonny Algood, pastor of the Freedom Church of the Poor and an Alabama co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, noted that the video recorded on a cell phone and released on social media stands in stark contrast to the city’s policy of not releasing police body camera footage.
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