Louisiana Cop Threatens To Fight Handcuffed Teen For Spitting On Him!!

A cell phone video of a Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s deputy shouting obscenities at and threatening to fight an aggressive, but handcuffed man in the back of a patrol car has gone viral.
The video was posted to Facebook yesterday afternoon by Frankie Duplantis and it shows deputy Joseph Cehan cursing at a man who has been identified as Christopher Verdin Jr., 18, of Dulac.
Verdin was shouting obscenities at the officer and reportedly was spitting on him as well.
In the video, Cehan curses at Verdin repeatedly and asks if Verdin wants him to take off the handcuffs and his badge and “see what you can really do?” He then pulls Verdin out of the car and proceeds to, according to Duplantis in the video, take off the handcuffs.
What happens next is harder to see because a second deputy makes Duplantis turn away and tells him to “go over there with that phone.” Cehan and Verdin can still be heard cursing at each other.
When Duplantis moves to try to continue filming, the second deputy continues to try to block his view. Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Jerry Larpenter said the deputy was trying to stop Duplantis from approaching Verdin.
According to a statement from the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office, the deputies were called to 7077 Grand Calliou Road by Verdin’s mother, who said her son was on crystal meth, had a gun and had shot at her dog and hit the dog over the head with a crescent wrench.
Duplantis said Verdin was not kicking and spitting and had his hands cuffed behind his back when the deputy started shouting and cursing at him and that’s when he decided to start filming.
“I’m not against the cops, I just don’t think they handled that right,” Duplantis said. “I’m not saying (Verdin) didn’t do some of the things they said, I’m just saying they shouldn’t have done some of the things they did.”
Duplantis’ daughter, Frankie Jo Duplantis, Verdin’s girlfriend, also said that Verdin wasn’t on crystal meth and did not shoot at the dog like his mother said. Larpenter confirmed that the dog did not get hit by any bullets and did not need to be taken to a veterinarian.
When deputies arrested Verdin, they reportedly found a .45 caliber handgun with an extended clip in his waistband.
The Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office said Cehan’s choice of words was “not very professional and does not reflect the integrity of the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office.”
Larpenter said Cehan’s behavior after the arrest was not acceptable and was not following protocol. He also said Cehan should not have removed the handcuffs while arguing with Verdin because it put him and others at risk.
“He did a great job arresting the suspect and getting this guy shooting a .45 caliber handgun off the streets,” Larpenter said. “His actions don’t justify what he did though. We don’t operate like that.”
Larpenter added that the sheriff’s office will be doing an internal investigation starting Monday morning and will be watching the bodycam footage to determine what actions should be taken.
Verdin was arrested for illegal use of a weapon, illegal carrying of a weapon and aggravated cruelty to an animal.