Both Antone Austin and his girlfriend Michelle Michlewicz were arrested for resisting arrest
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A police body camera video of Los Angeles shows two officers arresting a black man outside his home in Hollywood . Police had come to the area to respond to an incident of domestic violence in which the suspect was a white man.
A federal magistrate on Friday ordered the publication of the video as part of a lawsuit for racial discrimination and civil rights violations presented by music producer Antone Austin, known as Tone Stackz, according to Los Angeles Times . Both Austin and his girlfriend, Michelle Michlewicz, were arrested for resisting arrest or.
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The video shows the a gruesome arrest of Austin while both he and his girlfriend said he was innocent . Before getting out of the car, one agent asked the other if that was the boy. “Probably,” replied the other. This beginning of the video shows that the cops were not sure that Austin was the man they were looking for for domestic violence that 24 May 2019.
A Austin neighbor had called to report her boyfriend for gender violence . In the call, the victim did not provide a description of the suspect, according to the Times.
Officers spotted Austin as he was taking out the trash in front of his apartment on Fountain Avenue. [” The music producer smiled as the cops approached until they asked him to turn around. When the man asked them for explanations, an agent said: “because I told you so” . Austin assured him that he lives there and the agent says: “ Okay, I don’t know who I’m looking for “.
The agent asks the man” what is your problem? ” and they begin to struggle to put her arms behind her back . That’s when Austin starts yelling “help” on several occasions. “They are looking for people from the upper floor,” he warned the police, as they tried to put the handcuffs on.
Michlewicz tried to intervene at that moment asking for explanations, but the agents they push her boyfriend away from her. That is when her robe falls to the ground and the woman is left half-naked in the middle of the street. Finally they push her to the floor .
Already in handcuffs, Austin continues to try to explain that they are arresting the wrong person. But the agents ignore and arrest his girlfriend as well.
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