While confirmed details were immediately scarce, including when, where and why the incident occurred, it is very clear that at least one officer wearing a uniform with a Shreveport Police Department shoulder patch participated in the apparent brutality.
The footage was posted to TikTok on Tuesday by a user named twentyeightgrams28. The first of two videos from the incident showed the unidentified Black woman’s limp body being briefly dragged across a field by two uniformed officers as dozens of bystanders expressed their disapproval at the police response.
They then let her fall to the ground to face the bystanders. One of the officers, who is white, is wielding an assault rifle as he turns toward the crowd.
All the while, messages are flashing across the screen to indicate what is alleged to have happened.
“The woman they’re dragging is unconscious,” one message says at the top of the screen.
“Shreveport police is [sic] dirty asf he beat her unconscious,” another message says.
As the video continues, another message references the crowd to explain, “Everyone around is just freaking out cause [sic] how they was handling her.”
At one point, the white officer is shown abruptly turning toward the crowd and yelling for them to “back up” because, as a message on the screen claimed, “Somebody threw something an [sic] hit him.”
The 28-second clip ends there, but one more video was posted showing what appeared to happen prior to the police dragging the woman.
In a separate 11-second clip, a white officer appears to be raining down punches on the woman while at least one of her hands is behind her back. Another woman is shown on the ground in front of her.
A message is printed on the screen: “See how the police over there pounding on her head?”
Another message says: “This is how the woman got knocked unconscious because of him.”
Viewers were encouraged to identify the officer and “Make him famous.”
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