ALABAMA – A Reform Police officer is on administrative leave after she was caught on camera using a stun gun on a handcuffed man.
The video shows a female officer leading a handcuffed man, 24-year-old Micah Washington of Tuscaloosa, to her cruiser and pushing him against the hood during a traffic stop on December 2.
The two exchange words, at which point the officer exclaims, “Oh yeah,” before pressing the stun gun into the man’s back and pulling the trigger.
After using the weapon, she asks, “You want it again?” before calling him an explicit name.
According to the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office, Washington was charged with obstructing governmental operations, resisting arrest, marijuana possession, drug trafficking and possessing a firearm as an ex-felon.
“She Tased him in the back and she was holding it. She was just holding it there until he started crying,” said Jalexis Rice, Washington’s girlfriend.
Rice said this all started when her boyfriend and two others were changing a tire of the car they were driving.
She claims that’s when the officer in the video pulled up, eventually putting her boyfriend in handcuffs and stunning him with a stun gun.
An investigation is underway.