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A Connecticut officer has been placed on administrative leave after video displayed him pistol-whipping a Black teen in the back of the head last week. Bridgeport police officer Gianni Capozziello was identified after a witness captured a video of the incident and posted it on Facebook.

The video captures the officer yelling “hands out the window” seconds before the driver is seen opening his car door and getting out of the car. The officer was seen walking to the driver, pulling one of his arms toward the ground and thrashing him in the hand according to the Atlanta Black Star.

“Turn around. Turn around,” the officer said. “Get the f–k on the ground.”

In an incident report Capozziello obtained by Fox 61, said that he feared the suspect was reaching for a weapon when he dropped his hands to his waist.

“As soon as I became aware of the video this afternoon, I ordered the officer to be taken off duty,” Bridgeport Police Chief Armando Perez told Fox 61. “Following the officer’s dismissal from duty, I instructed Internal Affairs to retain the dashcam and bodycam videos of the arrest scene and to begin an investigation.”

President of the Bridgeport Police Union Sgt. Charles Paris cautioned residents off seeing the video against a “rush to judgment” in a statement. In the statement, Paris said Capozziello was “conducting a felony stop of an unknown occupant of a reported stolen vehicle in a location that is known for high drug trafficking and weapons.”

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