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Footage of police in Los Angeles knocking over a man in a wheelchair has sparked outrage on social media.<\/p>\n\n

The footage shows Joshua Wilson, a black man in a wheelchair, being pushed over, beaten and handcuffed by LAPD.<\/p>\n\n

The incident reportedly happened on Tuesday afternoon (US time).<\/p>\n\n

The LAPD says it was responding to an incident \u201cinvolving two women who had shown indications of being in the midst of a mental health crisis\u201d.<\/p>\n\n

However, during that incident, about 50 protesters who were marching in the area surrounded police while changing \u201clet them go\u201d.<\/p>\n\n

Footage upload to social media appears to confirm that version of events.<\/p>\n\n

Protesters claim officers used \u201cexcessive force\u201d on the women.<\/p>\n\n

Additional police then turned up at the scene, in an attempt to outnumber protesters.<\/p>\n\n

A short while later, Wilson was filmed being beaten by police officers, who knock him off his wheelchair.<\/p>\n\n

People on social media expressed their outrage at the incident, saying there is \u201cabsolutely no excuse\u201d for the \u201cdisgusting\u201d level of force used by the officers.<\/p>","content_source":"","content_url":"","content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2020-07-17 23:07:44","content_date_finish":"2020-07-17 23:07:44","content_date_register":"2020-07-17 23:09:48","content_date_last_edit":"2020-07-17 23:15:45","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"0","content_show_related_img":"0","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"1","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"0","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","tag_id":"4927","tag_word":"Los Angeles,Los Angeles,Los Angeles,wheelchair,wheelchair,wheelchair","tag_service":"0","tag_total":"3","tag_soundex":"","attach_token":"3671043064","attach_date_register":"2020-07-17 23:15:41","attach_id":"7988","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/png","attach_img_type":"3","attach_img_width":"693","attach_img_height":"520","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"253","visit_date_last":"2024-11-02 14:06:06","attach_title":"Outrage after Footage of Black Man in Wheelchair Being Beaten by US Police Emerges 2","node_title":"Favorite,News,Palestine","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":98, \"left\":2, \"right\":11},{\"node_id\":120, \"left\":51, \"right\":52},{\"node_id\":126, \"left\":64, \"right\":65}]","node_number":"6","allowable_node":"6"}]]