⁍ The two Allentown, Pennsylvania, police officers who appear on a video showing one of them kneeling on a man’s neck won’t face any charges, prosecutors say.
⁍ ‘I have concluded that there is absolutely no evidence to support filing criminal charges against either of the Allentown police officers involved in this incident,’ Lehigh County District Attorney James Martin said in statement Friday.
⁍ Police had launched an investigation after a video of the July 11 incident posted on social media appeared to show an officer kneeling on a man’s neck while a second officer and another person hold the man’s hands behind his back.

– Two police officers in Pennsylvania won’t face criminal charges after a video appeared to show one of them kneeling on a man’s neck outside a hospital, CNN reports. Lehigh County District Attorney James Martin said Friday there is “absolutely no evidence to support filing criminal charges against either of the Allentown police officers involved in this incident.” Martin said the man was “clearly agitated and non-compliant” and “was clearly a danger to himself and potentially to others.” According to the New York Daily News, the officers were investigating reports of a man vomiting outside a hospital in Allentown on July 11 when they saw the man pointing toward a hospital security officer walking toward him with a vomit bag. The officers determined the man’s “actions were aggressive, and they determined that they needed to detain him for his own safety as well as for the safety of themselves and others, including medical personnel,” Martin said in a statement. The man resisted arrest and pulled away from the officers when they tried to handcuff him. The officers were able to restrain the man but they had to “very briefly” apply the officer’s knee to the man’s head because he was spitting on them, Martin said. The man was treated and released from the hospital the following day.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/17/world/coronavirus-newsletter-07-17-20-intl/index.html