SELMA, Ala.: A prosecutor said two on-duty white Alabama officers brutally beat a Black man five months ago after the victim got into a road-rage incident with the wife of one of the officers.
Dallas County District Attorney Michael Jackson announced felony assault charges against former Selma police officer Matthew Blaine Till and former Dallas County sheriffs Deputy John Nicholas Taccone at a news conference Wednesday, news outlets reported.
According to court documents, Tills wife got into the dispute with the victim on April 30 in Selma and called her husband to let him know about the incident with a black guy in a red Charger.
Both officers then arrived at the scene and eventually pursued the driver of that car. When the man pulled over, court documents said the officers approached him and got into a physical struggle with him, striking his head and face.
Till had tried to put…
