After much backlash and protesting, Vegas school officials have released the police reports and corresponding body camera footage in connection to an incident between a campus cop and a student that some saw as “another George Floyd.”
Clark County School District police Lt. Jason Elfberg is under fire after being captured in a bystander’s video pinning a Black teen on the ground. According to the body camera footage, a group of teens were watching and recording the arrest of another teen. Elfberg then approaches one bystander and grabs him to place him in handcuffs. “Hey, call my mama! I didn’t do anything!” the teen yells to his peers on the sidewalk.
In the footage, Elfberg then goes up to another teen who had their phone up recording and says “You want next dude?” The teen responds, “Don’t touch me bro,” and milliseconds later, he’s pinned up against a metal fence by the officer then being swung onto the ground, under a police cruiser where Elfberg placed both of his knees on his back.
As the group shouts at Elfberg to “chill out” and let the teen go, Elfberg barks back “Back the f-ck up!” according to the video.
In another chopped up clips, Elfberg is seen going up to the first teen who was arrested and says “I can come and stop anybody I want, you understand?” Elfberg then tells the teen he got cuffed for jaywalking. The officer is also recorded telling another kid the officers were investigating a scuffle but he wasn’t sure if it was that group they were looking for. He also says there was a report of a student bringing a gun to school the day prior and threatening to “shoot the school up.”
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