South Florida authorities have launched an investigation after a video of a Broward County Sheriff’s deputy choke-slamming a Black man to the ground went viral on social media.
The man in the video, Khalil Pace, 22, said he met up with friends at the gym at Bonaventure Town Center Club in Weston, Florida, when an employee accused them of smoking marijuana in the bathroom and called the police.
Pace denied the allegations but admitted that he called the employee racist and told them to “shut the f—k up” when the deputies arrived. That’s when he said they first roughed him up, but that interaction was not captured on video. His friends started recording the incident outside of the gym.
“Why are you grabbing him like that?” Pace’s friends asked in unison.
“Why are you touching him?” one of Pace’s friends asks as Deputy Patrick Keegan grabs Pace by the arms and positions him on a seat wall.
“All he said is ‘shut the f—k up.’ Don’t…
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