A former Arkansas police officer, 29-year-old Joseph Tucker Harris, has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault after a video surfaced showing him beating a handcuffed inmate in the back of his patrol car. Harris was also charged with filing a false report and misdemeanor third-degree battery. He was released on $15,000 bond after being taken into custody.
The incident occurred when Harris, then a Jonesboro Police Officer, was captured on his patrol car camera physically assaulting detainee Billy Lee Coram, who was handcuffed and being transferred from a local hospital back to jail in Craighead County. Harris was subsequently fired in August following the release of the video footage.
