SAN DIEGO, CA – In May of 2020, 23-year-old Amaurie Johnson was grabbed by his shirt by Officer Matthew Dages after he questioned him in front of an apartment building in La Mesa just two days after George Floyd’s murder, reported KPBS.
Footage captured on the officer’s body camera revealed Johnson said, “Stop touching me, bro” as the officer proceeded to push Johnson onto a concrete bench multiple times before arresting him, added KPBS. In the aftermath, KPBS notes, protests occurred in La Mesa.
KPBS details how Dages “was fired after an administrative investigation found he made false statements in a police report.”…