Family says man was victim of Baltimore police brutality City police are investigating an incident involving several officers and a man whose arm was broken during an arrest following a nightclub altercation, officials said. Share Shares Copy Link Copy

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WEBVTT >> THE FAMILY OF THIS YOUNG BLACK BALTIMORE MAN. IN HIS ARM BROKEN IN THREE PLACES BUT IT IS THIS MAN WHO HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH ASSAULT. WHO DID HE ASSAULT? NO ONE. >> I AM DEVASTATED THIS IS HAPPENED TO MY SON. >> WAS NOT ABLE TO DESCRIBE WHAT HAPPENED TO AARON WINSTON EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. WAS AT THE NIGHTCLUB AND TRY TO STOP A FRIEND FROM BEING ESCORTED OUT BY POLICE. >> THE OTHER OFFICER GRABBED MY SON, CHOKED HIM OUT TO MY THREW HIM INTO THE BAR AND LIKE A RAGDOLL THREW HIM TO THE FLOOR AND THE POLICE CAME DOWN AND BROKE HIS ARM. >> BROKE IT IN THREE PLACES. HE WENT TO THE HOSPITAL AND NEEDED SURGERY. >> AT HIS OWN REST CONFERENCE, HE SAID THAT AN INTENSE INVESTIGATION HAD BEEN UNDERWAY FOR DAYS. >> WE KNOW THE CLIMATE AND AMERICAN POLICING WE KNOW OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO THE COMMUNITY. >> HIS WORDS TODAY WERE ANYTHING BUT DEFINITIVE. WHEN ASKED, DAVIS WOULD NOT SUPPORT OR CONDEMN THE ASSAULT CHARGES FILED AGAINST ERIC WINSTON WHO IS DESCRIBED IN COURT AND POLICE DOCUMENTS AS AGGRESSIVELY PULLING AND PUSHING OFFICERS. >> IT IS AN INTERACTION DESCRIBED AS LAWFUL AND WE GET TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED. >> ONE THING THAT HE WAS CERTAIN OF, OFFICERS WERE REQUIRED TO STAY WITH HIM THROUGHOUT HIS HOSPITAL STAY. THEY DID NOT. THAT WAS A VIOLATION OF POLICE POLICY AND DAVIS SAYS THOSE

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