An officer with the Reform Police Department is on administrative leave after she was caught on camera using a stun gun on a handcuffed Black man.
On December 2nd, Dana Elmore, a white female police officer in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, detained, cuffed, and tased a young black man identified as 24-year-old Micah Washington. He was reportedly trying to fix a flat tire on the side of the road. However, Dana Elmore forcefully took the man into custody for allegedly acting “suspicious.”
According to the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office, Washington was charged with obstructing governmental operations, resisting arrest, marijuana possession, drug trafficking and possessing a firearm as an ex-felon.
Monday night, his loved ones and community members gathered near Reform’s city hall to protest the shocking arrest.
