SEATTLE (AP) — The NAACP called a news conference Tuesday to ask that prosecutors treat a Seattle police beating caught on video as a hate crime.
The civil rights organization also is asking for the Justice Department to intervene in the case.
The department already asked the FBI to conduct a preliminary inquiry of the April 17 incident recorded by a freelance videographers.
It shows an officer using a racial epithet and kicking a suspect’s head and stepping on his hand. Another officer comes over and stomps on the man’s leg. He was taken down as a robbery suspect but later released when officers realized they had the wrong man.
