Community members are crying out after cellphone video footage revealed off-duty Bullard police officers slamming a Black teenager to the ground outside Times Square Grand Slam in Tyler on Saturday.
Footage shows the officers speaking with a group of three individuals when the teen, who has his hands behind his back and appears to be in handcuffs, begins pushing up against the shoulder of one of the officers.
The officer then grabs the teen near his neck and slams him to the sidewalk, as a crowd who had gathered to watch the incident begins screaming.
Read the full story from our newspaper partners the Tyler Morning Telegraph.
