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Texas police officer can be seen on body camera footage saying leading a homeless Black man down the streets while he and his partner are on horseback will look “bad.”

Two Galveston officers arrested Donald Neely in August, accusing him of trespassing in Galveston, Texas. Photos of the arrest went viral showing the officers using a rope tied to Neely while leading down the road. The outrage leads to an investigation by the Texas Rangers and the Galveston County sheriff’s office.

At the time of the incident, protesters were demanding the officer’s body camera video be released to the public. Earlier this week, Galveston law enforcement officials released both body camera videos from both officers Patrick Brosch and Amanda Smith The Guardian reported.

In the body cam video from Brosch, he is heard asking Smith if she should get their truck so Neely won’t have to walk. However, Smith says their sergeant wouldn’t approve of the officers separating.

Brosch then says “This is gonna look really bad.”

Just before the officers started leading Neely away, Brosch can again he heard saying: “This is gonna look so bad.”

In the footage both officers ask Neely, why he keeps sleeping in buildings. The officers are seemingly nice to Neely as they lead Neely. Later in the walk, Brosch asks Smith if she wants to go on a street with less traffic. “Yeah, I want the less eyesight,” Smith says.

In the videos, cars are seen driving by while Neely was in custody and at one point a group of people asked the officers for directions. The two officers led the 43-year-old for several blocks until they reached their truck in a parking lot. Neely waited in the parking lot for more than 10 minutes until another officer arrived and put him in a vehicle.

Vernon Hale Galveston’s police chief said the officers who ride horseback are trained to use those techniques in crowd control incidents but displayed “poor judgment in this instance”. Hale apologized and stated the department has changed its policy since the incident.

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