Georgia Cop is Charged After Beating Homeless Woman With Baton

Once again cell phone video has resulted in a police officer being charged for abuse of a suspect. Dekalb County, Georgia police officer Phillip Larscheid now faces felony charges after prosecutors reexamined the video of a troubling arrest that occurred almost two years ago.




In the video, Katie McCrary, who was described as a homeless, Black woman was allegedly asking customers for money at a Chevron gas station located in the city of Decatur, Georgia near Atlanta. The store owner called the police to have her removed from the premises. Larscheid was the responding officer and instead of de-escalating the situation with McCrary, he decided instead to use extreme violence. Larscheid takes out a metal baton and begins delivering vicious blows to McCrary as she begs for him to stop and cries, “What did I do?” during the beating.