UNAPOLOGETIC: Police Assault Man with Parking Ticket
Episode 13. August 6, 2020. Tanisha Arena on the incident at the Springfield Police Station where a man wants to dispute a parking and ends up being assaulted by police and arrested.
WARNING: Part of the video of the assault is included in the video feed, available on our social media channelos on Facebook and Instagram, which was originally published in a story by Stephanie Barry of The Republican/MassLive.
According to Barry, the man filed a lawsuit in July against the the four officers.
Read the story here, where the entire video is included: https://www.masslive.com/…/springfield-police-officer-who-f…
Here is the arrest report by the police officer, whose statements were disproved by the video: https://www.documentcloud.org/…/5743821-Jerry-Bellamy-arres…
Springfield Police Officer Jefferson Petrie eventually admitted to an assault charge.
Northampton attorney Luke Ryan and Boston attorney Howard Friedman are representing Jerry Bellamy.