POMPANO BEACH, Fla. — A rough police takedown was captured on cell phone video in Pompano Beach.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office said they were responding to a shooting over a parking spot on Tuesday that led to three men being arrested.
A relative of the alleged shooter also found himself taken down by deputies and he claims they went too far.
Residents were recording on their cell phones as five BSO deputies worked to take down 22-year-old Jeremyah Terrell Taylor.
In the video, deputies force him to the ground while one of the deputies appears to be kicking and then stomping on him.
“One pinning his face to the pavement, one has his knee to his chest, and the other repeatedly kicking him,” said Taylor’s mother. “That is not to be justified.”
In bond court, we learned at the time of the arrest, deputies were responding to a shooting near Blanche Ely High School, and as they arrived Taylor exited his car.
His mother claimed he was trying to make his way to his uncle, 37-year-old Timothy Taylor, who was also taken into custody.
“He was literally going to get something from his uncle for his child,” she said.
As Taylor bonded out of the Broward County Jail on charges of battery of a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest, he showed Local 10 News cuts and scrapes he said he received from BSO.
He also viewed that video for the first time while maintaining that he did nothing wrong.
“All that kicking for what?” Taylor asked while watching the video.
He also had a message for the deputies who arrested him.
“See you in court,” he said.
Local 10 News did reach out to BSO, who said their internal affairs department is looking into the case.
Their findings will then be reviewed by the use of force review board.
Taylor does have prior arrests, but he says that has nothing to do with how he was treated.
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