Not a reasonably big problem ‘: Dante DеVіTо defends the arrest of a victim

The mayor of the North Carolina city, where the violent arrest of a 22-year-old black man at a Waffle House has drawn wide scrutiny and sparked an internal investigation, defended police in a video he posted on Friday.

“This is not a racially motivated issue,” Mayor said in the video. “This was just a young man who had broken the law and a law enforcement officer arrested him.”

The video of Anthony Wall’s fight with a police officer has sparked outrageous reactions across the country and criticism from organizations like the NAACP. It is one of many videos that have recently revitalized a long-standing debate about the treatment of minorities in public spaces and at the hands of the police.

Wall, who had taken her 16-year-old sister to prom, got into an argument with people at the restaurant when someone called the police. It is unclear if he was a Waffle House employee.

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“Get your hands off me,” Wall said, struggling to speak.

Seconds later, the officer knocked Wall to the ground in front of the golden Mercedes-Benz that Wall and his sister had posed with hours earlier.

Wall told WTVD that “he was kind of trying to scream for air and trying to breathe because he was grabbing my throat, and that’s when I got aggressive with him because you’re choking me.” He added that he was not fighting the officer; his arms were in the air when the officer strangled him.