The indictment alleges officers repeatedly struck Randal Worcester and slammed his head to the ground.
Two former Arkansas sheriff deputies are being charged with federal civil rights offenses for allegedly using excessive force during a police arrest of a man at a gas station in Mulberry, Arkansas, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
"Randal is very happy," his attorney Rachel Bussett told CBS News."He is grateful to see that the Department of Justice is pursuing charges against the officers." He had stopped and asked the gas station attendant for water, and the attendant became angry and called the police, court documents said.
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