The Hawthorne Police Department is in hot water after a video of officers appearing to use excessive force on an unarmed black man has gone viral.
A post shared by BlueAsDa Sky (@blueasdasky) on Jun 7, 2019 at 5:21pm PDT
Officers from the department stopped William Ewell, 24, for an alleged robbery. The video was taken by a witness, identified as Sky, during Ewell's arrest and posted on Instagram live.
The video has gone viral and has many commenting that one of the officers appears to be pointing a gun at Sky.
"You gon' shoot me, too," Sky responds to a police officer telling her to "get out of the way," "for filming, right?"
Confirmed here, the large gun is being pointed at the woman filming this. pic.twitter.com/4j0Fxk4sn3
— rafael (@rafaelshimunov) June 9, 2019Sky tells officers that her boyfriend, Leroy Browning was also the victim of a police brutality incident in 2015.
