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A Black man plans on seeking legal action after he claims two Georgia cops followed him home, tased him, and broke his leg over a ballpoint pen. According to WSB-TV, a Greenville police officer pulled over 30-year-old Corriyon Bray for speeding in December 2023.
Body camera footage shows the officer handing a pen to Bray to sign a ticket. When the officer demanded the driver return his pen, Bray held it outside his window and drove away.
“That motherf**ker. He stole my f**king pen!” the officer shouts before climbing into his patrol car.
The video cuts to the cop confronting Bray outside his home and demanding the pen again. When the 30-year-old man insisted he didn't have it, the officer threatened to tase him. The officer proceeds to do so as a sheriff's deputy wrestles Bray to the ground. During the arrest, Bray says, "I can't feel my leg, bro."
Bray ended up with a broken leg and was charged with obstruction and theft by taking.
On Thursday (April 25), the Black man showed his injuries to WSB-TV reporter Audrey Washington. He claims it's broken in two places months after the police encounter.
“It wasn’t right. It wasn’t right,” Bray said. “I think it was about trying to show authority. I think that’s what it was about."
Greenville Police Chief Wayne Frazier told reporters he reviewed the body camera footage, claiming the officers did nothing wrong to Bray.
“If he had complied, none of this would have happened,” Frazier said in an email. “Our SOP says verbal, hands-on, less lethal, and lethal, and he followed protocol."
An attorney representing Bray said his client plans on filing a lawsuit.
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