A Georgia man mistaken by police officers for a robbery suspect could be seen getting hit twice with a stun gun and arrested in videos released Thursday.
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Chief of Police Joseph Lumpkin called a five-minute video released by a lawyer for Patrick Mumford “misleading” and “highly-edited” and made public three 30-minute body camera videos of the Feb. 1 arrest.
Yet Mumford’s attorney, Will Claiborne, told the Daily News the footage showed the three officers “were escalating things” in a "very confusing situation" in which the officers didn’t ask for and check Mumford’s identification until after they used a Taser on him and handcuffed him.
"What we're looking for at this point is accountability, transparency and an apology," Claiborne said. "We would like for the police department to release the internal affairs records and human resource records on these officers. We would like the police department to acknowledge these officers made a mistake. And we would like an apology."
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