Police Department denies Lovejoy police chief had man in chokehold – WSB-TV Channel 2

Banks met his fiancée Ameeliah Nixon at the police station on May 30.

She wanted to file a complaint against an officer who had reported her for bypassing a police cordon at a railroad crossing where a semi-trailer truck was stuck on the tracks.

Body camera videos provided by police show Nixon to be extremely agitated.

“He was demanding that I get my ID and was overly aggressive, which made me angry. I was frustrated. He was yelling, I was yelling,” Nixon said.

At the police station, Police Chief Webster and others saw the couple in the parking lot and said they appeared to be involved in a heated argument.

They went out to get to the bottom of the matter.

“He (Chief Webster) made contact with the young lady to see what was going on. The gentleman shoved the chief and the chief said don’t do that again. If you do that again you’re going to jail. And then he got in the chief’s face and as he shoved him he was taken to the ground with a gentle hand technique. It was not a chokehold. He never put his hands around his neck to stop him breathing or anything like that,” said Lovejoy Police Captain John Davis.

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According to the police, a “dry taser” was used to handcuff the person, in which the taser is aimed at the person to be subdued.

Banks said he suffered injuries and denied pushing the police chief. He and his fiancée were charged with obstruction and assault.

They are now looking for lawyers to file a civil lawsuit against the police department and the police chief.

“This was excessive use of force,” Nixon said.

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