by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman
July 1, 2024
The officer later resigned after being arrested by his division for embezzlement.
A Black man confronted a Charlotte, North Carolina, police officer for allegedly stealing his cash as he was being detained for a visitors violation, an incident that was caught on a physique digicam.
The footage, launched to WCNC on June 25, confirmed the handcuffed man confronting officer Henry Chapman concerning the $900 being stashed in his automobile. Whereas handcuffed, the person advocated for his misplaced funds, main one other police officer to listen to him out and decide if the cash was in Chapman’s possession.
“Yeah, look, no cap, I’m not even going to the touch it, there’s blue lots of [dollar bills] proper right here…All that’s my cash, he didn’t have that,” mentioned the person in the course of the arrest, which came about in March.
Upon discovering the money tucked away within the automobile door, one of many responding officers requested if the cash belonged to him.
“Sure, I heard him crumble it up,” the person tells one other officer, referring to Chapman, whose face is seen within the clip.“ There was no motive so that you can pop the rubber band off my cash,” the person mentioned. “… I used to be simply pulled over for a visitors cease and also you simply tried to steal a few of my cash.”
The Charlotte-Mecklenberg Police Division charged Chapman with embezzlement on March 15. Initially positioned on administrative depart because the investigation began, Chapman resigned the day after his arrest. He’ll now seem in courtroom for a possible trigger listening to this month.
“This incident doesn’t outline the women and men of CMPD,” Chief Johnny Jennings mentioned in a press release.
The movies from the incident will be seen on CMPD’s YouTube channel. The person who was arrested has not been recognized.
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