The incident turns chaotic as the officer pulls the student outside.
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Another video uploaded by John James shows officers pulling two students out of the apartment.
In cell phone videos shot from multiple angles, an officer can be seen standing in the doorway of the apartment holding a college-aged male by the shirt with one hand while wielding a baton in the other.
The man’s friends are heard challenging the officer’s demands by asking if he was “being arrested or detained” and if so, the charges.
A four-minute video (watch it above) shows the students telling an officer he is illegally entering their apartment. The other student is thrown to the ground next to him.
An internal investigation into startling video of the violent arrest is expected to begin Monday, Tuscaloosa police officials said late Sunday.
And a student who posted one of the videos said, “Tuscaloosa Police proving once again they view UA students as nothing but a nuisance”. A second person is also wrestled to the ground, although the video flashes away so quickly that it’s not clear whether tasers came into play.
WIAT is working on getting more information about the videos and the arrests.
Update, 11:20 pm: Tuscaloosa PD has released a statement saying that police were responding to a loud music call around 3 o’clock the morning of November 8, the Crimson White reports.
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One of the young men was taken outside the apartment and then hit with a Taser stun gun, and struck repeatedly with an officer’s nightstick. “They were all screaming and everybody was videoing it”.
