“I just want to let you all know that I was scared and I was scared for my life … and I just pray and hope that it doesn’t happen to anyone else,” said journalist Wal Wal during a press conference on Friday. Told reporters. .
A social media video of the encounter shows deputies grabbing him to the ground and punching him in the face.
Clayton County is a suburb south of Atlanta City.
One of the deputies has been fired for excessive use of excessive force, and a criminal investigation into the incident has been handed over to the Clayton County District Attorney’s Office, the sheriff’s office fee said.
Jane Lamberti, one of the attorneys representing the law, said that since her encounter with law enforcement, the lawyer has experienced a number of medical problems, including medical cognitive problems, headaches and blurred vision.
She said Walker also suffered mild traumatic brain injury, back injury, fractures around both eyes and “knee injuries, which require full physical therapy.”
In a statement last Sunday, Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill said Waker had received medical treatment to include an X-ray of his head (no fractures could be found) and was being monitored by a doctor at the prison hospital.
A day after Bole was released from Fulton County Jail, Waker and his lawyers held a news conference on Friday. He was transferred there earlier this week after being released from Clayton County Jail on unrelated charges.
Prison records show that Vaker was charged with two counts of battery and two counts of obstructing or obstructing law enforcement officers.
Attorney Sheen Williams said they are calling for the firing of all officers involved in the incident.
“You have an oath of office and a duty as an officer to protect and serve him, you can’t stand to let that happen even if you’re not the one who beats the citizen,” Williams said.
The attorney says deputies asked for his ID before the confrontation
Williams told CNN that Waker, his girlfriend and one of his children returned the rental car on Sept. 11.
The car was then described as a violation of the taillights, according to Williams.
Williams said deputies demanded that Walker show his ID, but he did not have it. Deputies were annoyed when asked why they needed an ID, prosecutors said. According to Williams, Waker told deputies before officers used force that he had done nothing wrong.
In the video of the incident, a deputy is heard screaming, “He cut off my hand!” A separate video taken from another angle shows the children next to the car crying and someone being heard shouting, “Daddy!”
“He wasn’t attacking them or biting them, he was trying to survive,” Williams said Friday.
CNN’s Laurie Ure contributed to this report.
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