A traffic stop in Las Vegas has sparked questions online after video appeared to show several officers forcefully removing a Black man from his vehicle while a passenger recorded the encounter, including the man’s repeated pleas for help and references to his infant child inside the car.
The incident happened Aug. 23 near Wynn Road and West Flamingo Road, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, which confirmed the location and date to Atlanta Black Star. Police also confirmed an arrest but declined to provide additional details about the incident.
The video begins with the officer ordering the man out of the vehicle. As the man asks why he is being removed, the officer repeatedly tells him, “Get out of the vehicle.” The man responds, “Why are you doing this?”
The footage does not show the officer explaining what the man was being arrested for before the physical confrontation escalates. Officers can be seen pulling the man from the vehicle and taking him to the ground. At one point, an officer holds him down with a knee while the man repeatedly cries out and asks to speak with a supervisor…