An off-duty cop forcibly arrested a black woman at a Pennsylvania movie theater because she was filming him mistreat a group of teenage girls.
Video filmed by Melanie Carter at the North Versaille Stadium 18 movie theater shows confrontation between the manager and three girls on February 23.
Accusing the girls of causing ruckus inside the theater, the manager – named Jason -even claims that he has ‘witnesses.’
Video filmed by Melanie Carter at the North Versailled Stadium 18 movie theater shows confrontation between the manager and three girls on February 23
An off-duty cop, who had just asked Carter for a light for his cigarette, demands that she and the kids leave the premises
‘You guys have been a problem since you got here,’ an off-duty officer with North Versailles police department, Christopher Kelly, says of the girls.
Kelly had just so happened to ask Carter for a light for his cigarette, but was now demanding everyone to leave.
Carter was charged with resisting arrest, failure to disperse, disorderly conduct and defiant trespass
But Carter retorted that she paid money so that she and her children could watch a movie.
‘You’re behaving like an animal,’ the manager said to Carter and the children, proceeding to make his way closer to the Wilkinsburg, Pennslvanbia, native.
Kelly tells the woman that she is ‘defiant trespassing’ after she tells him that she isn’t leaving and proceeds to take out his handcuffs and attempt an arrest.
In the next moments, Kelly appears to tackle the woman and she goes further to say that he banged her head on the sidewalk and put his knee in her back.
Carter was charged with resisting arrest, failure to disperse, disorderly conduct and defiant trespass.
‘I broke no laws. I’m asking the community to help me seek justice. I need a lawyer,’ the woman wrote on Facebook.
Accusing the girls of causing ruckus inside the theater, the manager – named Jason -even claims that he has ‘witnesses’
The officer was identified as Christopher Kelly with the North Versailles police department
On their Facebook, the movie theater announced that the officer was off-duty and that the manager in the video was fired, following an internal investigation.
‘We are aware of this incident and after an internal investigation, we determined that the manager’s conduct does not reflect our values, his training, or our policies,’ they said in a post on Facebook, Friday.
‘This is certainly not the way we treat people, and this manager has been relieved of his duties. The off-duty police officer is not an employee of our company, and his actions have been reported to his superiors.’
On their Facebook, the movie theater announced that the officer was off-duty and that the manager in the video was fired, following an internal investigation