The officer has filed a lawsuit against the two police.
Body camera footage showed the two officers pointing their guns at Nazario, using pepper spray and knocking him to the ground.
Virginia s attorney general has directed his civil rights office to investigate a possible pattern of misconduct by police in the town of Windsor after officers drew their guns and used pepper spray on a Black uniformed US Army officer during a traffic stop.
Caron Nazario, a second lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, filed a lawsuit this month against Joe Gutierrez and Daniel Crocker, officers in the police department in the town of about 2 600 people in southeastern Virginia, over the incident that occurred in December.
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Police officer fired 4 months after soldier s traffic stop
A police officer who is accused of pepper-spraying and pointing his gun at a Black Army lieutenant in Virginia was fired four months after the traffic stop occurred and two days after videos of the incident drew national attention
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WINDSOR, Va. A police officer accused of pepper-spraying and pointing his gun at a Black Army lieutenant in Virginia was fired four months after the traffic stop occurred and two days after videos of the incident drew national attention.
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