Police Release Dash Cam Footage Of Taser Incident And Altercation With Suspect

Davenport, IA, 24 February, 2017 - The Davenport Police Department on Friday released squad car dash-camera video of an altercation between two officers and a 40-year-old Davenport man who now faces drug and assault charges.

Police pulled a vehicle over for a traffic violation on Friday, February 24, 2017 around 3:15 a.m., according to a statement on the Davenport Police Department's Facebook page.

The traffic stop was near 9th Street and Fillmore Street, which is a neighborhood about two blocks west of Zion Lutheran Church.

It was not clear what that traffic violation was.

In the statement the department said someone inside the vehicle "was physically aggressive with officers, fled on foot and a Taser was deployed."

The person who was tased was taken to the hospital for treatment of injuries.

Charges were pending in the case and police said they are doing an internal review "as directed by department policy."

The release of the nearly 20-minute video comes a week after the incident involving Untril Donnell Overstreet, who was injured after fleeing from police and being subdued by a stun gun.

Police Chief Paul Sikorski said during an hour-long media briefing Friday that an internal investigation into the incident is nearly complete.

Graphic photos of Overstreet’s facial injuries circulated on social media in the days following the incident.

On Monday, the department said through its Facebook and Twitter pages that there had been “numerous posts on social media in reference to this incident which are cause for concern in reference to the accuracy of the information being posted as well as threats being made towards officers."

When asked by a reporter whether the incident had been blown out of proportion on social media, Sikorski said, “I think some of social media did, yes.”

“It’s an experience for us,” he said. “We study it, and we read a lot about it, and actually we plan for those things you hear about around the country, and then when it happens right here in your back yard, it’s just a little bit different.”

Sikorski said the department talked with county and city attorneys about the “necessity in a case like this to for us to show … we want the community to believe in us and to trust in us and showing them what we do is an important part of that.”