Video appears to show an officer kneeling on a man’s neck while attempting to restrain him.Authorities are investigating after a video appears to have captured a police officer kneeling on a man's neck while attempting to restrain him.
A still from a video shows officers in Allentown, Pennsylvania, restraining a suspect outside St Luke's Sacred Heart Hospital on July 11, 2020.After the video was shared, protesters demonstrated Saturday night in front of the police precinct in downtown Allentown. Ben Crump, the attorney for George Floyd's family, also shared the video on Twitter Sunday, saying this was"exactly what led" to Floyd's death. Floyd died in May after he was pinned down by a Minnesota police officer who prosecutors say held his knee on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes.Sunday evening, the Allentown Police Department released a statement regarding the incident.
You though everything will stop, cops wont put knees on the neck! No no no no no, cops don't give a shit, hell do what he needs to at the moment! Cops don't learn, can't turn a hoe into a housewife!! You cant get back to human after you been living inhumane! Inhumane garbage cops
NO CRIMINALS, NO POLICE.
So he should not have resisted arrest. His own fault.
This's freaking crazy, what is going on, don't we have enough with the pandemic and the white House staff, including you know who, my God.😱😱
So in other words they were doing their jobs
stay the fuck down. oh but it's the cops fault that's right.
Again a clip from a long drawn out arrest where this criminal was trying to take out as many officers as he could. Yet the media makes it appear this man was being abused. Show the other 15 minutes where this criminal was as vicious as a rabid dog fighting police.
Let them do there job
ABC news is part of the problem.
Obey the law and this wouldn’t happen.
Do these idiots ever learn or they just don’t GAF!!!! Not a question a statement
If this was peaceful it would only take one.
I see it on he's head
Don’t resist arrest.
Seriously?
100% of suspects who do not resist arrest avoid being pinned to the ground.
Really ABC News?!?!? Your network is crap.
Just comply and these circumstances would never need to happen. If you want to fight with police this should be the outcome. It doesn’t matter what race you are , just comply. PERIOD !
Just likes psychiatry abuse.
We need Robocop!
Let's keep the racism going... don't be a thug and resist arrest and you won't get your head drove into the ground.
Welcome to 2020 where criminals have more rights than innocents and police.
stopresisting
You are aware that there are some really bad guys out there to whom you just can't say 'come with me' and they peacefully follow. Stop this gotcha journalism, most cops are okay.
This is insane. Not only is the officer kneeling on his neck but the man's head is over a curb!! The officer clearly could have broken his neck. Is it really necessary ? The man was down on the ground not moving. He could have rested his knee on the man's upper back. Stop!
The police need to be strong with the opposition. The police need to be better equipped. Americans need to be protected from the lawless.
It’s head, not the neck 😳
Attenpting to restrain? How about 'arresting' !!!!!
This is the next city over by where I live in Bethlehem. Allentown has had it’s problems with crime, but the police have super close ties to the community. Most of the police are from the area. This should get resolved quickly.
Control the head control the body.
Looks like his head, not neck.
26 secs only-cherry picking at its best.But it is the 26 secs that fit your anti-cop narrative. This from the network that killed a story about Epstein and his pedophilia group that I’m sure was longer than this video Hypocrites
Yea...and your point? Oh, thays right, stoke race relations...never any accountability for the criminal just the cops... is EnemyOfThePeople FakeNewsMedia
Thats obviously attempted murder
Look at the other videos & get back to us.....
Suspend these assholes
Americans are the biggest racist out there! And This is not even their own country!
Looks like he leaned onto his head not his neck
How in hell is a cop supposed to restrain violent criminals.. you people are headed into doomsday,, soon your kids will get raped, overdose, prostitution, murders,,, I don’t give a 💩I know how to defend myself... OFF THE WALL THIS MEDIA...
“Appears to put his knee”? C’mon. This headline should say, “Shitty cop kneels on man’s neck with no regard for his life”.
channel_clear There’s a huge difference between what happened here and in Minn. Police should be trained to put their knees on people’s heads to get control and put cuffs on. In Minn. the cop had his knee on the neck and kept it there. They are very different situations.
Nice to finally see a police department stand up and publicly defend their officers.
Now wait that guy looks white ! According to blacks police dont treat white suspects this way they only do these things to blacks ! Quick we must destroy cities steal things from stores and beat up innocent business owners in a unified act of idiocy
Here we are again. The whole officers need a re-training
You know we can all see the video of him putting his elbow then knee on his head, not his neck, right?
This Officer did everything right. He did not LEAN on anyone’s NECK, he used partial body weight to control a combative suspects HEAD. He put his knee on the suspects head to control the suspect who was attempting to resist arrest. Perfect, by the book, suspect taken into custody
ABC is worried about the placement of a knee and an elbow what about the fact that it takes 3 cops to subdue this guy. The police have do deal with belligerent criminals and in a battle like that shit happens, get over it. Rules for cops and perps can do whatever.
Any footage from the ambush that killed two police officers in Texas? Or doesn’t that fit your narrative?
Whenever coons get on the porch, mama just chase them away with a broom
It appears the men in police uniform r killing for food. The $50K for every person that dies is a catalyst in these brutal arrests and killings. If they can reduce that money to 10K, the agents of death not be in business.
You'll have 4 more years to try to remove this President. We're getting tired of winning.
I Back the Police Officers, WHAT DON'T THESE THUGS UNDERSTAND When A Police Officer Say's Your Under Arrest COMPLY WITHOUT RESISTING! & You Might Win In Court. If Not, They Have To Use Force To Get The Handcuffs On I would side with the Police Officers in Court!
Erm, that's not his neck. That's almost the top of his head. 🤔
Not again....🤬
They just don’t listen,you don’t have to restrain someone,by sitting on his neck
They should have asked the videographer to put the handcuff on the suspect.
makeamericafreefromracisminequality Don't let racism to win!!!! Make 'Black Live Matters' Successful!
And this is a superset FFS it’s America
“Appears”. Have any of your reporters ever spent a shift riding with police Try it sometime !
I'm not for killing people but at some point these people actually resisting arrest need to comply with the officer. It needs to be said that it's not all on the officer this suspect needs to comply
Do criminals kill their prey with a flower? Do sex offenders violate and kill women with a Christmas card? If anyone resists an arrest the police will be forced to use excessive of force.
Don’t resist and it won’t happen!
Did the officers really do anything wrong you can clearly see they are struggling and just trying to restrain the guy.
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See the full video before you post .
Comply its easy
Back of the head and neck are two veryyyyyy different points on the body. Just sayinh
His knee is on his fucknn head not his fucknn neck and hospital personnel standing there cause he was attacking them !!!!! Fucknn people are a fucknn joke !!!!!!!!
Police should just walked away when the suspect became non-compliant and let the super involved protectors of society with their cell phone help that guy.
It's the Bee's Knees.
They dont learn....
STOP RESISTING and this won't happen! Or shall we just call in his supervisor to bring red carpet to place under criminal w/ pillow and bring in vice squad to negotiate arrest and politely ask him to comply and throw him handcuffs to arrest himself! REALLY!
This officer must be made an example of and be put on desk duty immediately. In fact, all of them should until they go to proper take down training. They need a fine also. When will they learn? You don't do it.
Looks like the officers knee is on the guys head and not his neck
What's wrong with these people. Do they treat their children similarly?
'Attempting to restrain' or maybe resisting arrest? don't care tbh 🤷
DefundThePolice
They don’t learn
If the man wasn’t breaking the law and resisting arrest this would not have happened. Blame the source.
So what. Worry about innocent kids being caught in the cross hairs or inner city gang wars.
The perp was resisting arrest, the restraint worked; and the perp was fine. Let's not omit those facts in the tweet
Why does this keep repeating itself?
i feel like i woke up in the twilit zone where we feel sorry for criminals
any update on duncan lemp? Still no body cam nor warrant basis released. It's been months now.
Did he die? No. Was he non-compliant? According to LE. We will see in the coming days.
Looked like his head to me
do you think that peopledont see what you're doing? Fck you. 'appears'? fck you. You're driving the wedge with your bullshit. The blood is one your hands. CNN MSNBC NBCNews DNC CBSNews
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How about to cover some real shit instead of police doing their jobs.
they need to use a sky hook.
his knee isn't on his Jugular... So he's fine.
And...
Wgite man thinks he own black man
“Appears to...” ?
You're going downnnn
Who cares anymore
YEAH, YEAH...
Please show us the correct way to restrain a suspect.
should be an automatic suspension, pending investigation
and?
They Didn’t learn the lesson...
they are evil
Come back and play, here we go again with another embarrassing scene of the heroes of the homeland, 'The Police' who supposedly should take care of us and not mistreat us, what a filthy plague!💩👎🏿🤦🏻♂️😡🤮
Abc news pro Police founded by Democrats !!!!
Wtf?
Did he die? Or are you trying to stir the pot
It seemed like they never learned, aggression is part of their training.
What law did he break?
It looks to me his knee is on his head. Not his neck.
Who gives a fuck
Only 26 seconds. That ain’t enough video to show anything. Where’s the rest of the video.
But did he die!?!? Show me more than 27 cherry-picked seconds please.
So what the hell are law enforcement supposed to do with somebody like that ?Once again ABC you are fanning the fires by showing edited video !Tell the truth !
That guy is just fine. People are stupid! Who do you think the police practice on in the academy? They practice on each other! If the evil knee in the neck technique was lethal then there would be deaths from it during training. Calm down children.
They should have called in a social worker or his mommy to calm him down and not resist.
Actually its on his head
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People are starting to resist for their 5 minutes of fame. Don’t resist or your dumbass white or black is going to the ground hard.
So what happened before the video started and why was he being arrested. Report it all you can’t just show a little snip-it.
How dare police officers make arrests ! They should say very politely to the alleged offender: sir , is it alright if I put these handcuffs on you ? If he resists or runs away then back in the cruiser. Time for coffee!
Any news on the woman who was shot by BLM protesters?
Hello anyone home? Not a tactical use you should be using
That old news ABC move of to another story.
Outrageous! Coke-Neck is banned now.— Police Bruality & Execssive Police Force are human violence and human cruelty! Defund The Police! AuriaChrista
They just won’t stop, what will it take?
comeonpeople stop with the knee on the neck already.
So if a guy was resisting arrest and officer gun him down, is he right for that? No the point is you shouldn’t use unnecessary force. Knee on his neck coulda killed him so why execute a man just for resisting? It’s literally 3 officers and he’s down, why put the knee on him?
Why is he resisting? WTF is wrong w/ some ppl. Stop fighting w/ police.
Stop it with this BS. I don't see you showing the times that white cops are being shot, beaten, spit on, and treated like $hit If you can show one side then show them both! You're 100% negativity and reaction driven and part of the problem in this country.
realDonaldTrump here you go for your meeting with families who are positively affected by the police.
I just love the 'ojecive reporting'..they play the same clip on a loop. Was it a couple seconds as he got leverage against a resisting person? How can you compare this to the horrific intentional actions of the monster from Minneapolis?
Police are taught to do what they have to get someone resisting in cuffs...once in cuffs is a different story.
Stir, stir, stir, stir! The crime is ABC News reports.
Resisting arrest has consequences.... Should they have a called a Social worker?
If he was spitting on people, then, yes he needed appropriate force to restrain. With coronavirus, spitting or coughing on others could result in death for those being spit/coughed on.
Should’ve cooperated
ONG THE HORROR!!!
until they are in cuffs why not? Then get the hell off them.
Looks like it's on his face
Stop this!!!! Stop showing only one sided videos!!!! What about the officers killed this weekend!!?
Now do the Texas ambush
i am beginning to think it is standard procedure for police in the states to put an elbow and a knee on black culprits
This is what yellow journalism causes
There is nothing wrong with this. He wasn’t on his neck for 9 minutes. If he does it for 20 seconds to help arrest an individual there is nothing wrong. This is a taught restraint. It’s not meant to be used for significant amount of time however.
This is different than the George Floyd murder. Placement of the knee was totally different as was the length of time. Quit trying to make a major case out of every situation.
Why is he resisting arrest I wouldn’t.
LeslieMarshall keep stirring the pot, and the cop hating,n i stopped watching abc news years ago
I would like to see any member of the media try to restrain a violently resisting suspect bent on trying to hurt them. Real life is not Hollywood where most untrained individuals seem to live. A resisting suspect grabs a hold of a firearm and the story changes instantly.
STOP RESISTING. IT’S JUST THAT DAMN SIMPLE. Thank you to the brave officers for all you do to keep law abiding citizens safe.
Lies lies... Im so tired of reading this nonsense of blm.
Make resisting arrest equal to assaulting an officer. If they resist, 10 years. If they don’t resist at all and police use this type of force, 10 years for the cop. Cops shouldn’t have to wrestle with people like they’re at a rodeo.
where is the video？
News networks show this stuff all the time. Celebrities and politicians are asking to defund the police. It's a plan to use our military as law enforcement, and get rid of local police.
🤬🤬🤬
Habit they can’t break huh?
This picture shows the officers knee is on the perps head
26 seconds? Yeah. There might be more to the story 🤦♀️
Anti-Trump cabals continue to unleash much noise and hatred but little of substance. It will only stop when they regain power. Trump is not the problem. Anybody in power other than the Left is the problem.
THE KKK,NAZY,CRIMINAL POLICE HAST DECIDE TO KEEP KILLING ALL MY PEOPLE IN USA....IM BLACK EUROPEAN AND I WILL ALWAYS STAND BY MY PEOPLE WHATEVER IT TAKES AND ALL BLACK PEOPLE AFRICAN AMERICAN SHOULD STICK TOGETHER AND FIGHT BACK.JUSTICE MUST BE DONE.
When will this end The general public is not an enemy force to be terrorized.
so what? resist arrest, get manhandled.
BS. The man was non compliant, and was having to be physically restrained. How long was he held with the officers elbow or knee on his neck? Are we in a lawless society where criminals being restrained have more rights than police officers?
Liberals are OUT OF CONTROL.
Hmm, looks like the guy needed restraining. So what?
LeslieMarshall That's how you restrain someone.
Some of these criminals simply shoot and kill innocent children.I suppose police should kiss and hug all criminals and release them from prisons using any excuse.
No, it doesn´t even appear as if they do. Stop framing, abc
Maybe he should quit resisting!!!
They doing they jobs if you resist they gonna use force there's no sweet talking around that ... Y'all wanna fucken protest go protest for that child one year old baby sitting in a stroller killed by gunmen You MF blm Looney only wanna get justice for criminals resisting arrest
katz_mum Allentown PA Pennsylvania
Here’s where this goes. Incentive to resist arrest because you can get some $ via a lawsuit later and if the police use appropriate restraint there’s no downside. The amount of criminal behavior in this country that lands in the hands of cops is unbelievable
People need to stop resisting honestly when you are caught your caught white peoples seem cAnt restrain a Blackman n they’re doing their job because commit a crime
It’s not even on his neck! It’s on his head because he’s resisting. Enough already
WTF
Stupid actions reap stupid consequences. Y'all want to fight the police, quit crying when they arrest you. There are lots of good cops just trying to go home after their shift. Stupid actions (fighting police) doesn't help anyone. Identify and call out the bad ones.
Quit breaking laws and resisting, then there is no video. His knee is on his head, not neck.
That's how it's done liberal fascists. Works well. You're welcome!
Such BS! His arm and then his knee is on his head. Last time I checked, covering your ear does not prevent your ability to breath. But, proceed liberals with your endless attacks on cops attempting to control criminals.
This must have been taken a long time ago.
I smell a paid vacation coming for the pigs
And SO WHAT You think necks and heads are off limits when police are trying to subdue someone who is resisting them? There's a difference in this and someone sitting on someone's neck for 9 minutes. Do you ever do news that doesn't fire up hate?
People need to stop resisting , now they purposely resist thinking they won't be arrested 😤 Arresting a Crimminal requires any force on hand
Film the police 😘
Okay now uploaded the video of a black man stabbing multiple white people for no reason in NYC
I'm guessing the 'victim' is Hispanic. Let's start a new organization for them. smh
Don’t resist
That is sometimes necessary to restrain someone that is resisting, especially if they are on dugs. The alternative is to just let the criminal go.
Good! Successful in restraining this fkn scumbag!
Stop resisting arrest, would put all these problems to rest. All of these criminals would be ALIVE TODAY if they stop resisting arrest.
When ABC can’t see the forest but they can see the knees.
AllentownPolice, y’all gonna fire and charge these thugs?
The man was restrained after he began to 'yell, scream and spit at the officers and hospital staff. The individual continued to be non-compliant, which required officers to restrain the individual and the hospital applied a spit shield'
Stirring the pot more? You are posting 26 seconds of a video where is the rest of it! Don’t show me what you want me to see!
It’s his head idiot...the media just trying to generate clicks!
Madness again?
We keep going backwards when we should be going forward.
Don't be a criminal. Problem solved.
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