Two deputies with the Crawford County Sheriff’s Office in Mulberry, Arkansas, and one officer of the Mulberry Police Department are under investigation this week, after footage shared widely on social media showed the law enforcement officials beating a man while he appeared to lay prone on the concrete outside a convenience store.
Speaking with the Arkansas Times, Naomi Johnson, the woman who first shared the video of the incident, said the clip had been sent to her by her sister who witnessed the assault firsthand and was too shaken by what she saw to to discuss it publicly yet. But, Johnson said, her sister had sent her the footage explaining that she’d seen the three officers talking with the man outside a Kountry Xpress, and that the man appeared to be in some form of mental distress. According to Arkansas State Police, the man is Randall Worcester, who is currently being held on a suite of charges including resisting arrest, assault, and battery. Crawford County Sheriff Jimmy Damante claimed to local news outlet KHBS that Worcester had threatened a clerk at a nearby store before biking to the Kountry Xpress, where he was confronted by the three officers.
