A surveillance video which was taken three months ago have emerged online and went viral, when a responding police officer directly punched a black business owner armed with gun.
It happened after the owner reported to the police about a robbery incident that happened on his store, which the officers believed he might have been the suspect.
The video shows three police officer entering a store in Sixth Avenue in Decatur in North Alabama, one officer directly punch the 47 year-old Kevin Penn and handcuffed him.
Penn says he called a police that day to report his store had been robbed.
" The police were called to investigate a robbery and Penn was armed, they believed he might have been the suspect," Decatur police Chief Nate Allen said.
As Penn appears to be refusing to put down a gun, an officer walks in and immediately punches him in the face, the body camera video shows.
Alabama police punch and arrest black business owner who called to report a robbery from r/PublicFreakout
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