The first video, recorded Sunday afternoon, shows Fort Lauderdale police officer Victor Ramirez escorting Bruce Laclair, who CNN affiliate WSVN reports is homeless, at a bus terminal.
According to the arrest report, Ramirez, who was working an off-duty detail at the time, saw the man sleeping on a bench and asked him to wake up and go somewhere else. The man cursed at Ramirez and told the officer to leave him alone, the report says.
Ramirez wrote in the report that he told Laclair to leave the terminal and gave him plenty of time to leave.
“After ignoring me, I grabbed Laclair and arrested him for trespassing after warning,” the report says.
Tale of the tape
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“It was disturbing, to say the least,” Gelin told CNN. “This is somebody who was obviously mentally ill and it was like torture. How can you do this to another human being, particularly one who’s mentally ill?”
Johnson is on restricted duty pending the outcome of an investigation.
“I am concerned by the way the deputy handled this situation because there were other courses of action he could have taken,” Broward County Sheriff Steve Israel said. “Internal Affairs has initiated a complete and comprehensive investigation.”
CNN’s Javier de Diego and Eliott C. McLaughlin contributed to this report.
