PROVIDED BY CNNNEXT.COM
Courtesy: Thomas Donovan, Law Offices of Howard Friedman
Recently released footage shows an Amherst, Mass.
police officer assaulting a University of Massachusetts student after he recorded a group of officers making an arrest.
Though approximately 30 feet from where the arrest was occurring and separated by a fence, law enforcement demanded Thomas Donovan leave the area, and then pepper-sprayed and tackled him before stomping on the young man’s phone to destroy the video.
The camera, however, continued rolling and the files were not destroyed.
