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The “insecure” actor Kendrick Sampson was beaten by a police officer in Cartagena, Colombia, during an encounter on a street Tuesday.
Sampson posted a video of his arrest on Instagram. The helmeted officer can be seen punching him in the face, pulling out a pistol and appearing to cock it before holstering the weapon and putting Sampson in handcuffs. Then Sampson is taken away.
“I have been told that stopping is a policy, but what it is NOT is that I pull down my underwear aggressively, hit my arms 5 times hard, hit me in the jaw and point his gun at me,” wrote Sampson. “Then he handcuffed me and dragged me through the streets.”
Sampson said he did not “resist any legal proceedings.” He also said it was the sixth time in five days he had been detained in the city.
“It happens a lot to black Colombians,” he wrote.
In a statement delivered to El Tiempo, a national newspaper based in Bogotá, the Cartagena police commander defended his agents, saying that they used “legitimate” force during a search. The commander, General Henry Sanabria Cely, said that Sampson had resisted the search and tried to reach into a bag.
He said Sampson was cited for lack of respect for authority and contempt of an officer, and that police had alerted US officials in Cartagena.
Natalia Reyes, a Colombian actress who appeared in “Terminator: Dark Fate,” also posted the video on Tuesday and condemned the police conduct.
“Today this happened to him here in Cartagena and everything hurts, not only because he is a friend but because that is the day to day of many, because we get used to this and that is NOT okay, it is not normal, the police have the right to ask for your identification, but you have no right to hit him, dig into his underwear (as happened before someone started filming) and point a gun at a person who is not committing any crime or offering resistance, taking him to a station , not wanting to return his ID and even trying to admonish him? Reyes wrote.
Sampson was actively involved in the Black Lives Matter protests in Los Angeles following George Floyd’s death last summer. At the time, he was seen on video being hit by a policeman’s baton and it was published that he had been hit by rubber bullets.
“You don’t see any police screwing up the whites when they took guns to the state house,” he said on Instagram Live at the time. “They didn’t see the police attacking the whites, hitting them with batons, shooting them with rubber bullets when they carried guns to the damn state houses. We came here without weapons, with masks … And we are the ones who are not peaceful ”.
Sampson played Nathan Campbell, Issa Rae’s love interest, in seasons three and four of “Insecure.”
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