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From [HERE] and [HERE] CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Sharon Allen can't sleep. The images of Sunday morning keep haunting her.

"They were beating, kicking him," she said. "The gun was nowhere. He was laying in a ditch. And three cops were basically beating the crap out of him for five or seven minutes, maybe more," Allen said.

20-year-old Malcolm Xavier Springs is the man police allegedly beat. Minutes before the alleged incident, police say Springs shot officer Brent Harrison. Harrison was released from the hospital Sunday evening.

Allen says she understands why police were angry.

"Yes I do. But what can you do if a person is handcuffed and shot and they're basically laying in a ditch?" She says there were three officers beating Springs. "There was an officer sitting here with his dog watching. I can't recall anyone saying anything or any cop trying to stop it," she said.

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