Eight police officers in Louisiana were indicted on charges of excessive Online Cigarettes Store USA force for allegedly beating two men who had raised their arms in surrender when pulled over for seatbelt violations.
Caddo Parish District Attorney James Stewart announced Tuesday that each of the officers in Shreveport has been charged with one count of malfeasance in office in connection to the arrest in January.
The Jan. 24 incident began when an officer attempted to pull over driver Chico Bell and his passenger, Damon Newport Cigarettes Shop Robinson, for seatbelt violations as the two men were leaving a private home.
The men didn't stop the vehicle, and a pursuit began, with video from a police car "showing that Bell threw several unknown objects from the window of his Chevrolet truck during the chase, ” the district attorney wrote in a press release.
Dash-cam footage from a sheriff's deputy's vehicle shows what happened when the two men stopped their car, the Newport box 100s cigarettes district attorney said.
“Bell and Robinson raised their hands, and then stuck both hands up out of the windows of the truck, in an apparent attempt to surrender without resistance, ” the release said.