Hot Springs, Arkansas Cop Joey Williams Goes Nuts on Teen Skateboarders - Go Skate Boarding Day, June 21, 2007

Not sure what's going on here, but it doesn't make the cop look very good. June 21 was Go Skate Boarding Day and, well, these kids in Hot Springs were skateboarding downtown when an officer, later identified as Joey Williams, tried to arrest one of them. He ended up arrested several of them. Here's more from Fox 16:

Hot Springs police are looking into an officer's actions after an Internet video appeared to show him choking three teens who were skateboarding near the city's famed Bathhouse Row.
Hot Springs police spokesman McCrary Means confirmed today that Officer Joey Williams stopped the teens on a city sidewalk June 21st. Means declined further comment, saying the department would release more information about the arrests later today.
The YouTube video, posted Monday, shows Williams apparently choking one teen and forcing him to the ground, while later chasing and wrestling two others while holding them in a headlock. Voices in the background can be heard asking Williams why he was arresting the youths.
In the video, Williams says several times that the teens violated a city ordinance by "fleeing" from police. Williams could not be immediately reached for comment.

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