Police are looking into a viral video that shows a white man grabbing a Black man’s neck in Milwaukee. The attack happened after the white man claimed the Black man stole a bike, NPR reports.
In the clip, which was taken on Oct. 10, a 62-year-old white man is on the phone saying that he saw a friend of the 24-year-old Black man take the bicycle. While he’s talking, his hand is on the 24-year-old’s neck and his legs are straddling the back wheel of the bike the Black man is riding. The person recording the video, Deangelo Wright, asks him to remove his hand from the younger man’s neck. He obliges, but gives Wright the middle finger as he does so.
The Black man said several times that he didn’t touch the bike.
In a Facebook Live video with community activist Vaun Mayes, Wright said he was driving on the street where it went down and immediately thought the situation “looked crazy.” He originally believed the 24-year-old was a child, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports .
“I just would want someone to do it if it was my kid,” Wright said.
Source: In Disturbing Viral Video, White Man Grabs Black Man’s Neck While Accusing Him Of Theft
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