"Get on the ground." The officer said the vehicle appeared to stall, and he got out to speak to the driver and could smell marijuana. You may opt-out by, EY & Citi On The Importance Of Resilience And Innovation, Impact 50: Investors Seeking Profit — And Pushing For Change, White Georgia police officer uses shock weapon on Black woman, faces investigation as video goes viral. The videos have been viewed millions of times on TikTok. "We did not call you, I'm not going anywhere," Smith said. The Gwinnett County Police Department said late Friday it had terminated the employment of Officer Michael J. Oxford, who responded Tuesday to a call on Summit Creek Way in unincorporated Loganville.. Oxford was investigating a dispute between neighbors. “For this reason, the employment of Officer Oxford has been terminated as of August 21st. Bongiovanni, who's been on the force 19 years, wrote he ordered Hollins out of the car, but a struggle ensued. Both officers did not respond immediately to CNN requests for comment. He then attempted to arrest Smith, which is what social media users saw on the viral video. Oxford wrote that as he tried to handcuff Smith, she pulled away from him and he deployed his stun gun and she fell. The agency said, however, that it took issue with the officer's conduct during the arrest. He eventually asks her, “Do you want to go to jail?” Smith responds, “I’m not going anywhere. "Smith once again continued to yell and shout in which I then told her she was under arrest.". — A Georgia police department fired a white officer Friday after an arrest captured on video showed him using a stun gun on a Black woman. Bongiovanni was let go by the department for his actions and for lying to investigators, according to Ayers. During the investigation, a second video surfaced, shot from a different angle by another witness. The police statement alleged the officer gave the woman "several warnings" and told her she would be stunned if she resisted commands. "I'm not going anywhere.". A Georgia police officer who was seen in a now-viral TikTok video using a stun gun on a Black woman during an arrest has been fired. The Gwinnett County Police Department said in a press release that officer Michael Oxford "violated our policy and did not meet our core values" during the Aug. 18 arrest of Kyndesia Smith. I’m not going anywhere.”. On Wednesday, Sgt. A Georgia police officer who was seen last week on a TikTok video, tasing and arresting a 22-year-old Black woman has since been fired from his job. "The police department takes all use of force seriously," the statement said, concluding: "An investigation into this incident is being conducted. "I am almost for a loss of words for what we had to go through today for the unwarranted actions of two of my officers," he said. She was released on bond on Wednesday, August 19th. The officer responded to the home at around 7:30 p.m. on a property damage call in which a neighbor reported a group of people had thrown a bottle at her car, according to a Gwinnett County police statement. The video showed the Gwinnett County police officer, Michael Oxford, tasing a woman named Kyndesia Smith after bickering with her and several other women in front of a house, with Smith telling him, “You're on our property. “The police department takes all use of force seriously,” Gwinnett police said in the original statement. I then utilized a arm lock/leverage technique on Smith's left arm in order to get the left arm behind her back to be handcuffed. Gwinnett County police fired Officer Michael Oxford after an internal investigation found he violated department policy and "did not meet our core values," the agency said in a statement. The incident happened on Aug. 18 on the 1800 block of Summit Creek Way in Loganville. He said nothing about a punch. The Gwinnett County Police Department said in a … "Get on the f---ing ground," the officer says. 89 cases involving two fired officers have been dismissed, Motorist tells TV station: "I wish this had never happened to me". For her part, NBC retained police records that show Smith was charged with simple battery against an officer and willful obstruction of law enforcement. We did not call you. For this reason, the employment of Officer Oxford has been terminated.". A POLICE officer has been fired after he was caught tasing an unarmed woman on her porch in a viral TikTok video. The officer appears to try to have Smith turn around to handcuff her, and the confrontation escalated when she refused and ended in the officer tasing the woman. We strive to conduct ourselves in a manner that promotes mutual respect with the community and our peers. Police said one of the women on the porch at a nearby home matched the description of a suspect in the complaint. A police officer in Georgia was fired Friday after a video of him tasing a Black woman went viral on social media this week, getting viewed nearly 20 million times on TikTok. 4. The department said the officer has been let go. The complainant directed the officer to the house where she believed the suspects were staying.". The officer responded that she was under arrest and grabbed her, later firing a stun gun at her, according to the video. The Gwinnett County Police Department said officers were called out just before 6:30 p.m. to the parking lot of an apartment in the 300 block of Summer Ridge Lane after a report of shots being fired. When Oxford went to the home of the suspects, he recognized a person on the porch as one of those in the surveillance video, according to the release. "He said you are going to jail and she said no I am not. You didn't even tell me what for. "The incident of the bottle being thrown was captured on surveillance video," the release said. LOGANVILLE, Ga. — A Georgia police department fired a white officer Friday after an arrest captured on video showed him using a stun gun on a Black woman. Officer Michael Oxford was fired over the arrest. Previously, I was an editorial assistant at the Forbes London bureau. CNN's Sheena Jones and Mayra Cuevas contributed to this report. The police department's internal affairs unit questioned Bongiovanni and McDonald about their actions, Ayers said. Gwinnett County Officer Fired TikTok video clip Smith was eventually placed under arrest, however police say while she was being arrested she kicked Oxford. "I told Smith that she need to either quiet down or remove herself from the scene and if she did not she would be further obstructing my investigation and would be arrested," the report states. I am a Texas native covering breaking news out of New York City. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Oxford is White and Smith is Black. On Friday, the department released body-camera video of the incident. "We strive to conduct ourselves in a manner that promotes mutual respect with the community and our peers. Is police misconduct treated differently in the cellphone video age? In this case, what we saw on video, that punch was unreasonable and unnecessary. Oxford's report said the alleged victim told him a group of people yelled at her, threw a bottle at her car and “threatened to kick her son in the head.”. The video showed the officer speaking with another one of the women on the porch, identified by police as Kyndesia Smith, who could be heard saying: "You're on our property.". Gwinnett County police fired Officer Michael Oxford after an … A police report obtained by USA Today said Oxford responded to a call about property damage Tuesday after a dispute between neighbors. This is not what we teach in the academy. She was released on Wednesday. The incident in Georgia comes after a summer of protests and increased scrutiny of police brutality toward Blacks sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis while police were attempting to forcibly detain him. Smith resisted a lawful command and refused to be placed in handcuffs. He wrote that Hollins was acting strange and started yelling, "I need my mom.". Gwinnett County Police Chief Butch Ayers spent Thursday firing two different officers after they punched and kicked a man they’d pulled over for a traffic violation on Wednesday. According to a previous release by the Gwinnett police department, Oxford was at the Loganville home where the arrest took place because a neighbor claimed that video surveillance captured another young woman throwing a bottle at her car and threatening her son. LOGANVILLE, Ga. - A Gwinnett County Police officer has been fired after a video of him arresting 22-year-old Kyndesia Smith appeared on the social media app TikTok. In his report, Bongiovanni said the vehicle did not have a license plate and continued moving as he tried to pull it over. The video, which has been viewed millions of times and shared 170,000 times, shows officer Michael Oxford arguing with Smith, eventually tasing her and arresting her. Minyvonne Burke is a breaking news reporter for NBC News. The video content may be disturbing and includes profanities. According to a press release issued by the Gwinnett County Police Department, Michael Oxford violated department policy and failed to meet its “core values.”. The investigation in this case has shown that Officer Oxford violated our policy and did not meet our core values. Attempts to find contact information for Oxford and Smith were not immediately successful Saturday. The officer was fired because his conduct "violated our policy and did not meet our core values.". The Gwinnett County police department said that along with Oxford’s firing, they are also releasing body-camera video to the news media. The Gwinnett County Police Department announced the firing of Michael Oxford, who can be seen tasing 22-year-old Kyndesia Smith while attempting to … We did not call you," Smith says in the video. The department says an investigation into McDonald's actions was launched immediately, and he was fired by midafternoon Thursday.

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