Richmond police tape of May incident released

Richmond police released a videotape yesterday of the May 30 incident in which officers tackled a young woman and her boyfriend and pepper-sprayed several people in an angry crowd. Seven people, all black, were arrested. The incident outside a black-owned club on Orange Street led to allegations of excessive force and racial profiling against the police. An internal investigation found that proper force had been used in making the arrests. The tape, made by a camera in a police cruiser, shows a portion of the arrest of Natasha Miller, who was body-slammed by an officer. members of the Justice Resource Center asked the U.S. Justice Department this week to investigate the incident. [more]

• Link to Video [here]