A wild video posted online over the weekend captured the moment a black police officer punched a Black Lives Matter protester at a rally in Pittsburgh, Your Content has learned.
Video posted online over the weekend showed Seth Taylor, a black police officer with the Wilkinson Police Department, punching a protester.
It showed the protester, Vuestro Merced, intervening while officers were trying to detain another protester in the Pittsburgh suburb.
He swung at Merced, forcing them to the ground as she called the officer a ‘f****** pig’
She was then taken into police custody, but was later released.
The incident came as about 20 protesters marched through Pittsburgh and into the suburb to demand justice for Jim Rogers.
Rogers, a 56-year-old black man, was fatally Tased by Pittsburgh police officers in October,‘according to The New York Post.
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