Bystander video of a Kansas City police officer who was indicted on an assault charge last week shows the officer kneeing a restrained man in the neck during an arrest in Westport in July 2024.
“What?” a bystander can be heard exclaiming in the video, which was provided to The Star by Erin Royals, a Kansas City woman who recorded the moment. “What the (expletive) was that for?”
The officer, Chris Showalter, was indicted by a grand jury last week on a fourth-degree assault charge, a misdemeanor, in connection with the 2024 incident. Showalter is also named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed last month by the man who was struck, William Michael Hardy…