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[quote=Anonymous]Purdue is embroiled in "police brutality" allegations. Purdue Exponent story here: https://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_f27e54ac-89fc-11ec-a646-2bf68067b76b.html

About 20 seconds of video was released that put Purdue Police in a bad light. An officer (with an unfortunate Hitler mustache) is shown on top of a student in a snow bank with his arm variously on the man's chin, chest, and neck. It's unclear how much force is being used, but during the video the man and the camera operator declare that the officer is hurting him. Because the individual is black, the encounter is being described as racist.

[quote]Adonis Tuggle alleges that a Purdue police officer used excessive force while restraining him.

The junior in the College of Health and Human Sciences was arrested for resisting law enforcement, according to Purdue police logs, but he says he didn't resist.

In a video taken by his girlfriend, Tuggle struggles in the snow, while officer Jon Selke holds his forearm over Tuggle’s neck and face. It’s unclear from the video how much pressure Selke uses.
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Police were called on scene by a bystander because of a “domestic disturbance of a couple arguing during a breakup,” police spokesperson Capt. Song Kang said. Tuggle said he saw a black truck pull over and park in the area; he assumes the driver is who called police.

Selke arrived about two minutes later and tried to separate parties to figure out what was happening, Kang said.

“He didn’t follow instructions,” he said. “It was a simple resisting case.”

Tuggle said he wasn’t resisting arrest, but instead, Selke screamed at him to “get away from the car.”

“I tried to explain to him, ‘Nothing’s going on,’” Tuggle said Wednesday. “‘I'm not attacking her. This is my girlfriend. We're having an argument.’”[/quote]

The Purdue Graduate Student Government released a statement saying that it "continues to stand by its commitment to supporting Black Boilermakers, and we condemn all police violence that disproportionately harms Black communities." [Source: https://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_ff0b0500-8ab8-11ec-ba73-e79ad249eda0.html]

Indiana University's student body president released a statement saying, ""The deplorable encounter between the Purdue University Police Department and (Tuggle) vigorously reminds us that campus police are not void of the pervasive biases that have disproportionately impacted racial communities." [Source: https://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_94c47dde-8abd-11ec-a49c-4f5a7e313b53.html]

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