he wasn t resisting. and the man who shot that footage is called david paisley. he runs a website called shedmedia.pa. police arrested paisley and seized the camera equipment he used to shoot that, $5,000 worth. we thought that video was remarkable. we alerted several canadian news outlets over the weekend to this footage and gave them david paisley s contact information, news organization to news organization but none of them reported on it. so we looked into it ourselves. several protesters who were there said that a truckner an orange jacket was attacked by police officers during the crackdown. we reached him him and he confirmed it providing this footage. it shows him exiting his cab calmly, kneeling down in front of his truck and clasping his heads behind his neck. watch i don t speak french.
police when officer runs into frame. the video appears to show the officer kicking 31-year-old david in the head. then drops to the ground and puts him in a head lock. it was unnecessary. he wasn t resisting. reporter: you d never know he was kicked and head locked from reading the police report which says he was driving an alleged stol stolen vehicle and crashed it when trying to evade police before fleeing on foot. you didn t have to do all that. reporter: it was the shocked woman behind the camera who messaged police about the police. that man should get fired. he was not a football for you to just kick him the way you did. reporter: the miami police chief swift to take action tweeting the video depicts a clear violation of policy. the officer has been relieved of duty and the state attorney saying she was shocked, appalled and opening an investigation.
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with respect to those facts is that he was so respectful in how he disclosed that he had that firearm. he said, sir, i have to tell you that i do have a firearm on me. and he went beyond what the law requires. he was compliant. he wasn t resisting. and at the end of the day, this was a traffic stop. unfortunately, the jury didn t see it that way. jury, that s the district attorney who prosecuted that case, the philando castile killing. there are five different degrees of homicide in minnesota. he chose the lowest degree which is manslaughter in the second degree which is simply culpable negligence and he could not get a conviction on that. when you saw that dashcam video, what did you see? yeah, i mean, obviously what you had is a person who never should have been a police officer who went from zero to 60 in about two seconds.
we ve never seen this organic protest. but it s illustrated how we re feeling. because i think even though we re suspicious, i think we thought there was going to be an indictment. there was so much evidence. you saw, heard it. he was unarmed, wasn t resisting. i think people were earlier today in a state of shock and a lot of pain and fear. you see them moving into action and strategy and also, i think that perhaps the police department has also had some time to think about it. the world is watching. the government is watching. they also had a strategy that shows the difference between when police are aggressive and what happens when the police let the process live itself out. in terms of how it felt, i think what we re seeing, anderson, is like this cycle of fear on both sides. you see the police are cultured