By PoliceOne Staff
LITTLE ROCK — A man and his attorney are using a YouTube video to claim that a uniformed officer made him the victim of police brutality.
Chris Erwin, 40 — whose attorney Keith Hall says that video shows an officer "dole out his blows into Chris’s face" — was asked to leave a restaurant in October, KATV reported. Erwin refused, according to the police report, and soon after a struggle began with Lt. David Hudson of the Little Rock Police Department.
"Hudson roughly puts his hands on Chris, grabs the nape of his neck, turns his face towards his fist," Hall said. Erwin was admitted to the hospital the night of the fight, where he received three stitches.
Erwin said he wants Hudson off the street, but police warn against drawing a hasty conclusion from the footage.
"People that would watch this video and say this is police brutality are obviously not getting the whole story, and we would caution them against that and listen to the facts when they come out," Police spokesman Lt. Terry Hastings said.
"This officer may have been doing his job to the very best of his ability," Hastings continued. "He may have been trying to protect other people. Those are the things that we don’t know completely yet."
Hall says he posted the video to YouTube because he wants more witnesses to come forward.
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