Police in a Chicago suburb have finally released a dash-cam clip that shows several officers violently attacking and pinning down an African American PhD student falsely accused of stealing his own car.
“This is my vehicle, sir. I have evidence. . . . I purchased this vehicle January 23, 2015, from Libertyville Chevrolet,” said the victim Lawrence Crosby at the time of the incident as his voice was captured by the dashboard-camera video,” read a Washington Post report Saturday, noting that police in the affluent city of Evanston still handcuffed and arrested the black student despite verifying that he owned the vehicle.
Police released the dash-cam video earlier this week, the report says, detailing the half-hour encounter that triggered a civil lawsuit against police by Crosby and yet another debate on race and policing in the city, located just north of Chicago.
The release came amid a persisting debate throughout the US about whether…