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By Brody Levesque (Washington DC) June 16 | The Seattle, Washington Police Department already under fire for using excessive force and having strained relations due to what, some in the LGBT community see as blatant homophobia, is today under fire in the African American community for a video posted online Monday that has now gone viral.
According to Britain's SKY News journalist Pete Norman in an online article published earlier today, Police officials in Seattle have launched an investigation into the conduct of an officer after he was filmed punching a black teenaged girl in the face.

Officials said they have a "number of concerns" over the officer's actions, which was captured on several mobile phone cameras and broadcast on Komonews.com.

"The issue we have to investigate is whether the force he used is reasonable given the combative resistance he was facing," Assistant Seattle Police Chief Nick Metz said.

"That appears to be an overreaction to what appears to be a non-violent jaywalking situation," said James Kelly, president and CEO of the Urban League of Seattle.

"Unfortunately this seems to become too far and too often of the typical police response.

"The provocation of the 17-year-old may have presented a confrontation situation but the violence in the form of a full-blown fist to the face was wrong."

Norman writes:
"According to a police statement, an officer stopped a teenage male after he walked across a street instead of using a footbridge, and while talking to him four girls jaywalked at the same spot.

Walsh, 39, alleged the group was "verbally antagonistic" and events escalated when the 19-year-old girl, Marilyn Levias, tried to walk away."

YouTube footage of Monday's incident has already attracted over 264,000 views with more than 6,600 comments being posted about the event.

[Updated on: Thu, 17 June 2010 00:14]
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