Police Officer Punches & Arrests A Black Business Owner Who Called To Report A Robbery!
A black business owner armed with a gun was mistaken for a robbery suspect when a police officer punched him in the face, Decatur police Chief Nate Allen said today.
The situation happened nearly three months ago on March 15 but has become public now because of a surveillance video clip released on social media over the weekend. The video shows a police officer walk into Star Spirits & Beverages, a liquor store on Sixth Avenue in Decatur in north Alabama, and immediately punch the owner, 47-year-old Kevin Penn.
Penn says he called police that day to report his store had been robbed and that he was holding the suspect at gunpoint.
Allen said because police were called to investigate a robbery and Penn was armed, they believed he might have been the suspect.Posted by JR</>