The video shows a man on the ground, his body twisting in different directions, as an officer closest to his head pummels him with a right fist and then a left.
The video was recorded Sunday outside a convenience store in Mulberry as three officers, two from the Crawford County Sheriff's Department and one from the Mulberry Police Department, arrested a man on allegations of trespassing and other crimes, Arkansas State Police said in a statement.
Mulberry police subsequently said in a statement that their officer has also been suspended pending the investigation, NBC affiliate"The City of Mulberry and the Mulberry Police Department takes these investigations very seriously and holds all their officers accountable for their actions," the department said.
It's not clear what took place before the recording, which appeared to have been shot from a vehicle at the Kountry Xpress market. According to KARK, the Crawford County deputies came upon Worcester after a clerk at a retailer reported to another police department that a person spat on him and threatened him. That department asked neighboring jurisdictions to be on the lookout for the suspect, the station reported.
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