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Bodycam Footage Shows Police Pin Child to the Ground!

FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY A video has surfaced on social media showing Athens-Clarke County police pinning down a 10-year-old boy around 6:30 p.m. on July 20. Athens resident Ariel Collins posted the video, which has since garnered more than 15,000 shares and over 450,000 views on Facebook. The two officers are shown holding the boy down on his stomach in a field as the boy speaks to the officers. According to an Athens-Clarke County Police Department press release, the child had “lunged at one of the officers” after running past family members to attempt to speak to his father, a suspect who was in the back of the patrol vehicle on the scene. As the boy ran at the police, one officer “caught the child in mid-air and the momentum of the child launching himself caused the both of them to land on the patrol car,” the statement said. After some time had passed, the child “continued to be emotionally distraught” about his father, motivating the officers to “place him on the ground,” the statement said. The boy’s father had been arrested at his house on Sartain Drive for domestic violence charges, according to the report. The child can be heard in the video saying “I’m sorry” and “yes sir” to the officers who were pinning him to the ground. Officers said in the statement they were attempting to “de-escalate” the situation, “assuring the child was not under arrest and that we would let him up if he would remain calm,” the statement said. At one point in the video, one officer backs away while the other speaks to the boy, before letting him go without being handcuffed. Once the officers believed the child was calm, they let him off the ground. ACC police released a statement regarding the video on Monday afternoon, July 23. ACC Police Chief Scott Freeman has ordered an internal affairs investigation and the release of the officer’s body cam footage, according to the statement. The body cam footage of the incident has not yet been released as of press time.