LOGANVILLE, Ga. (AP) – A Georgia police department fired a white officer Friday after an arrest captured on video showed him using a stun gun on a Black woman.
Gwinnett County police fired Officer Michael Oxford after an internal investigation found he violated department policy and “did not meet our core values,” the agency said in a statement.
Before he was fired, Oxford had been placed on administrative duty following the encounter Tuesday, which was filmed on the front porch of a Loganville home and has since been viewed millions of times on the video-sharing app TikTok, news outlets reported.
The officer responded to the home at around 7:30 p.m. on a property damage call in which a neighbor reported a group of people had thrown a bottle at her car, according to a Gwinnett County police statement. She also told officers one of the group members threatened to assault her 9-year-old child.
Police said one of the women on the porch at a nearby home matched the description of a suspect in the complaint.