FOG BLOG U.S. NEWS LOG: MAN PULLED OUT OF CAR BY DAYTON OH POLICE!

Police Officer Drags Man by Hair From Car. ‘I’m Paraplegic,’ He Protests...Body camera footage released by the police in Dayton, Ohio, showed the encounter with Clifford Owensby, who has filed a complaint with the N.A.A.C.P.....A Black man who was pulled from a car by police officers while yelling “I’m paraplegic” filed a complaint with the N.A.A.C.P., the organization said, as the police in Dayton, Ohio, said they were investigating what had happened during the stop.

On Sept. 30, an officer with the Dayton Police Department grabbed the hair of Clifford Owensby, 39, and dragged him out of the car after repeatedly telling him to step out, according to body camera footage released by the department on Friday. Mr. Owensby told the officers that he could not get out of the car because he was paraplegic, according to the footage.

Mr. Owensby’s lawyer, James Willis, said he planned to file a lawsuit.The Dayton Police Department did not immediately respond to questions seeking comment on Monday afternoon, but in a 16-minute video released by the department that contains the body camera footage and some police statements, they said an investigation had begun. The Police Department has not publicly identified the officers.

The footage begins with an unidentified officer describing what led to the stop. Officers had been alerted to “a suspected drug house” in the area, and a white Audi was seen leaving that house, the police said. In the vehicle, the police said, was Mr. Owensby. The police said they got Mr. Owensby’s identification, ran his information and found that he had a “felony drug and weapon history.” The officers requested a police dog that could detect narcotics. The police said it was the department’s policy to require people to exit a vehicle when it was inspected for drugs.