South Florida police officials on Friday said they used a stun gun on two-time Olympic medalist and sprinter Fred Kerley during his arrest on Thursday night.
Kerley, who won silver during the 100-meter sprint in the Tokyo Olympics and bronze for the same race in Paris last year, was reportedly resisting arrest late Thursday and became “increasingly aggressive,” Miami Beach police said, according to NBC News.
The stun gun was used during an altercation related to Kerley’s vehicle parked nearby. Police officers claimed they asked Kerley to leave the area, but he refused and allegedly “assumed a fighting stance.” When the officers then moved to arrest him, he allegedly resisted and a dart-firing stun gun was used.
Body-cam footage of the exchange showed four officers appear to struggle with Kerley as they attempted to restrain him. At one point Kerley claimed that he was not resisting the arrest, and had handcuffs on. He also repeatedly accused the officers of wrongdoing and said they would go to jail.
Kerley never identified himself as an Olympic sprinter during the bodycam footage, but at one point told officers to get off his legs. […]
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