A US Army soldier charged with assaulting a black man outside his South Carolina home for being âin the wrong neighborhoodâ has been suspended from his instructor duties by authorities at Fort Jackson.
Jonathan Pentland, 42, whose assault on the black man on Monday went viral, was charged with third-degree assault and battery in the incident which sparked Black Lives Matter protests at his doorstep.
Fort Jackson, the U.S. Armyâs largest basic training facility, wrote on Twitter Thursday evening that the Richland County Sheriff’s Department “transferred Sgt. 1st Class Jonathan Pentland to Fort Jackson authorities late yesterday evening.”