LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The Little Rock Police Department has released video footage of the arrest of a state representative who had been filming a traffic stop.
Footage released Wednesday show state Rep. John Walker’s arrest from the dashboard cameras in four patrol cars. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the incident occurred on Monday.
Police officers say Walker, a civil rights attorney, was filming a traffic stop involving two black men, when he and another lawyer got too close to the scene and refused to back away.
According to the newspaper’s description of the footage, one of the officers, who is white, accused Walker of being a “race-baiter.”
Both lawyers were arrested and charged with obstructing governmental
operation, but the charges have since been dropped.
Police Chief Kenton Buckner has apologized to Walker. An internal police investigation of the arrest is ongoing.
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