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Denton Police Release Bodycam Video Of Tasing Incident

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• published: 24 Jul 2015
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Denton, TX - Police officers’ body camera videos released Thursday prevented protests that had been planned over a Denton incident in which police restrained a woman and used a Taser on a man, an NAACP official said. Willie Hudspeth, president of the Denton County NAACP, said Thursday that protests were planned after residents saw a separate video shot by a teenager and posted on Twitter late Wednesday. The woman and the man were African-American and the officers were white. The officer’s body camera video shows an officer commanded Marcus Coleman to back away 30 times Wednesday afternoon during the incident at a Denton motel. He refused and tried to get past police before an officer used his Taser, the body camera video shows.The woman was handcuffed because officers feared she was going to jump over a balcony railing, police said Thursday. “The officers believed she was in an altered state because of possible alcohol or drugs,” said Denton police spokesman Ryan Grelle during a news conference on Thursday to release the department’s body camera videos.“I got a call from people wanting to demonstrate,” said Hudsepth, who attended the news conference. “I came down and before I saw the videos, I thought if something had gone wrong, we would have started demonstrations. But this time the officers worked it out. They did it proper.”Grelle said the police department just started requiring officers to wear the body cameras earlier this year, so the release to show the community what happened was a first for the department. More videos ➜ https://www.facebook.com/CaughtOnDashcamsOrCCTV About the video / Community guidelines: This footage is NOT intended to be violent or glorify violence in any way. We are sharing this footage STRICTLY for the purposes of news reporting and educating. Caught on Dashcams or CCTV is a channel where we strive to show people the videos that has been left out of the main-stream media. If you'd like to keep up to date be sure to join us and subscribe.