Teen accuses Webster police of excessive force in arrest caught on video

Newly released videos from onlookers and police body cameras show police officers from Webster, Massachusetts, hitting a teenager during an arrest on Saturday.

Police said that the incident happened after officers responded to a call just after 5:30 p.m. that said three teens may have had guns sticking out of their backpacks near Park Street and Myrtle Avenue. A short time later, police said they received another call for three teens who had “shot out a car window, and there was an altercation involving them on Wall Street.”

During the arrest, police said that the shirtless suspect was “showing a tendency to be assaultive.”…

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