Footage of a white police officer breaking a black man’s leg by beating him with a baton during a violent arrest has been released by officials in Pasadena, California, sparking condemnation from civil rights groups.
Christopher Ballew, 21, suffered a broken leg bone and a bleeding head wound while being detained at a gasoline filling station on November 9.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), an African American civil rights organization, called the officers’ actions “reprehensible” and “inhumane.”
“We are concerned that such treatment continues against people of color, especially black males,” Delano Yarbrough, Pasadena’s local NAACP president, told Pasadena Weekly.
The footage shows police attempting to arrest Ballew after he allegedly committed multiple traffic violations while driving his vehicle.
Footage recorded by a bystander shows one of the policemen hitting Ballew’s back with the…