

Salt Lake City police officers tackled a man, shocked him with a Taser and held him at gunpoint in December 2019 after accusing him of jaywalking, body camera footage released Wednesday shows.
Though the arrest unfolded more than three years ago, police announced Wednesday that a community member last month made a “renewed request” for body camera footage of the confrontation. Upon review of the footage, the Salt Lake City Police Department placed six “sworn employees” involved with the arrest on paid administrative leave and initiated an internal investigation, officials said.
It’s unclear whether police reviewed the footage after the 2019 arrest. If they had, it’s unclear why an internal investigation was apparently not initiated until after the community member’s February request for the footage.
“The Salt Lake City Police Department acknowledges this case should have been reviewed more in 2019,” officials said in a news release Wednesday. “The department has taken steps to immediately rectify and prevent future occurrences by enacting more rigorous standards and expectations when it comes to these matters.”
Police on Wednesday did not identify the community member who requested the footage, which depicted the Dec. 15, 2019, arrest of Tarik Mason, who was 37 at the time.
The initial stop
Mason was initially stopped near 900 South and 400 East after an officer witnessed him jaywalking across a street while holding a bike frame, police said.
The footage released Wednesday shows that officer getting out of his patrol car, approaching Mason and asking him why he did not wait for a crosswalk signal before crossing the street.
Mason, who an officer in the body camera footage later described as Black, repeatedly apologizes to the officer.
“I’m sorry, I thought I did something, like, wrong — it’s just my buddy gave me this bicycle frame,” Mason says in the footage. “I thought that’s why you were rolling up on me.”
The officer replied that even though there were no cars coming, Mason needed to wait for the crosswalk light to change, the footage shows. He then asked Mason for a driver license or any other identification, which Mason said he did not have, though Mason said he had been issued a Colorado ID.
The officer then asked if Mason had dealt with the police before, so that the officer could “look [him] up in the system.” Mason replied that he had.
When the officer then asked if Mason had any warrants, Mason said that he shouldn’t, the footage shows. He gave his name and birthdate to the officer, apologizing again.
“Please sir, don’t bother me man,” Mason said as the officer turns back toward his patrol car.
“I’m just gonna make sure you don’t have any warrants,” the officer replied, telling Mason to “chill for just one minute.”
Mason then turns to continue walking down the sidewalk, the footage shows, and the officer tells him to remain where he is. Mason continues walking away, and the officer repeatedly tells him to stop.
“I just jaywalked, that’s all,” Mason says, walking backward while facing the officer. The officer then calls for backup, and Mason starts running away down the sidewalk.
The officer runs after Mason, who drops the bike frame. Mason then begins running across 400 East down East Hoover Place, as the officer yells “Police, stop!”
The chase continued down to 500 East, and into an alley between 500 East and South Park Street, before Mason stops, appearing out of breath and hunched over.
“Stop! Get on the ground,” the officer says, withdrawing his weapon and pointing it at Mason, the footage shows. Mason repeatedly refuses, still hunched over, then continues to walk away.
Once Mason and the officer chasing him reach the end of the alley, near 521 E. 900 South, additional officers approach from the opposite side, surrounding Mason and yelling at him to get on the ground.
One officer then tackles Mason to the ground, and Mason screams as four officers attempt to put him in handcuffs, the footage shows. One officer knees Mason in the face as the others hold him down and find his wrists.
“Give me your hands!” an officer yells. In the footage, it appears that while Mason is on his stomach, one of his hands is behind him and the other is tucked in front of him; Mason repeatedly yells that he can’t get his other hand out as five officers attempt to handcuff him.
The moment Mason’s arm is freed, an officer deploys a taser to his legs, the footage shows.
Officers then search Mason as he remains on the ground with his hands cuffed behind his back. Once they sit him up, he says, “You beat the hell out of me.”
Mason groans in pain as police ask for his name; he at first replies that he does not know it, then says “John Doe” before he tells them he already told the initial officer his name, the footage shows.
The officers then call for medical attention because Mason suffered a facial laceration while police were handcuffing him, according to the footage.
After his arrest, Mason was charged with one felony count of possession or use of a controlled substance with priors, three misdemeanors and one infraction. Court documents state Mason had two other criminal cases pending at the time of his arrest, and that he had failed to appear for a sentencing hearing in a third case.
Mason later pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of possession or use of a controlled substance; court documents state that police said they found methamphetamine on him, though that was not clearly depicted in the body camera footage released Wednesday. The other charges were dismissed with prejudice.
god of the bottomless pit. Mental illness b.s, they are demons walking amongst us
R.I.P.
God black people are fucking garbage.
Just think if we left them in Africa this country would be so much better. Every other race is so much better.
Not all blacks, only people like him are trash.
If he did what he is accused of doing and that is proven in a court of law, he should be executed in Public.
Throw him in front of a bus in front of a Judge.
Within this week - a 19 year old girl was shot dead during a robbery in a Burger King in Manhattan, and an innocent woman was pushed onto the subway tracks.
New York is getting worse day by day. Used to be one of the best cities like a decade ago but it’s become a literal shíthole.
All part of the Gloabalists plan to bleed the middle class dry and have just The Elites and the Serfs.
Soros' dream is to see America destroyed he has said.
His megalomania has only grown since he broke the Bank of England in '92 to the tune of 1.1 billion by shorting the British pound.
"Martial has a history of mental illness".
No living person should have a history of mental illness. They are a menace to society and should have been removed already.
The killer is using this mental illness BS to get out of his crime!
I like the way you think, you and me see a murderer playing insane to avoid a life sentence in Attica-------- but all liberal democrat New Yorkers see is this---- see ??? Bluebirds are around him,, he wouldn't hurt a fly.
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A truely menace right there. Just insane how this increases
So god does exist. I stand corrected.
How do you figure white people did this to them? There is no personal accountability in the black community?
He needs an excuse for their horrible crimes.
You know as well as I do that is BS - they will ALWAYS keep on asking for more.
People are not giving a fuck anymore. Esp ones with nothing to lose as they step closer to a future of hopelessness. Going to jail for some is like visiting relatives. For others; going back to school. And a few, home. But pushing a woman in front of a train can be scary to most people. Esp the working society. "When will it be you falling in front of that train?" Ugh.
No one's going to fix this. And it will continue until all Hell breaks loose. 2024/2025.
It's going to be fixed! And it won't be pretty.
Absolutely and exactly. This entire scheme, 2020 to now, is a red carpet roll for the Overlord. When he reveals, Covid ends. Peace is promised. Many people find justice. The prosperous shakes in their boots. But ugh, comes with a price.
he will be out in a few hours with a warm meal a few bucks in his pocket and an apology from the mayor
When is someone going to do something about Jorge Sore ohs?
Surprised the devil hasn't collected his dues.
What we have here is another negra
working on an insanity defense.
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By handing them citizenship? Yeah right! Thanks Rep. John Bingham for that!
that's the thanks we get for all the good jobs we gave them in the cotton industry.
And nothing on NFL salaries and such?
Get lost liar!
Really? Please inform me $ hit eater!
Sell tickets--you will make a fortune!
The big surprise to me is that (for example) Chinese Triad gangs haven't started taking revenge upon nhiggers. I lived in Asia for 13 years and if this kind of sh*t had started happening there, the burrheads doing it would have been running in terror. Asians in the USA need to get their act together and hit back hard as fuck.
Is she elderly or 40? Put some effort into the description.
fucking sick black bastard
You are a stupid drone that doesn't even understand what it believes in. It's rather pathetic. I would rather take a bullet to the face than be you.
Another black animal "fit" for a cage ...
It Okay for God to Kill
Given the stance of the new Soros DA in NYC, he might as well be God because he will be allowed to walk.
A gang loots a store, you KNOW what gang looks like. A 7-11 clerk is robbed and shot dead at 2a.m., you KNOW what that robber looks like. An innocent Asian person is thrown in front of an oncoming train, you KNOW what that attacker looks like. Same people, committing the same types of crimes, ALL THE TIME.
A man shoots up a school, restaurant, movie theater, airport, concert. You already know what color the shooter is.
Why do we not start executing these killers? They do not deserve trials and appeal after appeal and to serve whatever time they get in prison. They deserve death. They are caught on camera or with multiple eye witnesses, in most cases they are deranged enough to admit what they've done so why waste tax payer money and use up prison space only to have these killers eventually be released to kill again? Blacks or whites, when you do crimes like this, you should pay with your own life, and quickly.
Moku says 40 is elderly.
Alyssa Go 40 year old Asian woman pushed to her death in front of moving NYC subway.
Get it together Moku.
I just knew he would be Amish.
I was betting white supremacy, because Biden insists that it is the number one threat to America. And we all know what Biden says is God's word right?! Don't worry he'll be out soon on no bail, by the NYC's AG woke staff.
So now the homeless pavement ape gets free food, medical, shelter courtesy of the us taxpayer.
Should bring back public lynchings. Took care of a communities little problems quickly.
What, you can't think of black inventions?
Drive By's
BLM
Smash and Grabs
Welfare Fraud.
Rap music.
You mus be raysuss
CNN will tell you it is the White folks hurting Asians
Anybody with an common sense knows its bs with the mental , these n eggers keep attacking asian people.
CNN lighted the criminals skin on their news...
NYC is hell on earth...how far will the normal people allow the idiots running it go before the put a stop to it...?
NYC has gone back to those good old days in the late 1970’s when murder, rape, assaults etc were out of control.
Murder, attempted murder, child molestation and rapists get publicly "hanged by the neck until dead" thus the recidivism rate for these crimes will be zero.
A society cannot survive or thrive if criminals and especially murderers are not punished. The general public and all citizens must be made perfectly aware of the ramifications of thier actions.
Oh no,another Asian incident in NYC and this time it’s a fake prophet or religious one right here. Just another day this NYC skum hurts the innocent like it’s nothing. They really need to fix this city.
Murder 2 is the best they can do in NYC. This is simply insane. Stay away from large metro areas if you can. My condolences to the victims family. What a shame.
There's nothing wrong with a decent barbarian
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Fuckin n-g-r! Everybody knows God is Chinese. WTF?!
Black people sold Black people to white people on ships owned by Jews. So I guess there's a lot of blame to go around.
Black people sold Black people to white people on ships owned by Joos. So I guess there's a lot of blame to go around.
Let me guess: her husband is White??????
Are you a racist you POS gook
I was shocked to see...oh, never mind. It's not even a funny joke anymore!
The sad part is, knowing this is a Demon-RAT run city, he'll be released to continue doing the same crimes over and over again.
I'll by that for a dollar, or 20!
I blame LBJ for giving them welfare and keeping them enslaved via the welfare system. That's the only validity to this statement, but it's still not an excuse.
Hmm even though liberal cities are claimed to be shítholes, they’re still safe places compared to the population. Where do international tourists go when they visit here? - Zoo York, LA, SF, Anaheim, San Diego, Seattle, Chicago, Philly ....
They will call it mental illness (like killing anyone is normal behavior???) and will pat him on the back and tell him it is OK because they know life has been so hard for him with all the mean whites around.
More Democrat instigated crime from the bottom of the food chain.
Slight correction:
"Many scholars believe that, due to it's simplicity, this weapon was invented and re-invented in various locations. Most agree though that the blowgun dates back to the stone age and was known and used at that time on all the inhabited continents, with the exception of Africa."
Heard God is dead. If this guy is God then he should be dead. IDGAF if he's crazy, stop his breathing now!
More Black on Asian assault's . Every Asian assault is being carried out by
Black men or women. The worthless main stream media totally ignores this
fact .
no more denzel washington movies for the next 20 years lmao
Look another retard troll, don't you have a leftists' d!ck to swollow?
NYC must be like a third world country with a working power grid....
IMAGINE WHAT THE AFRICAN AMERICAN POPULATION WOULD BE CAPABLE OF DOING IF THIS WAS AN ASIAN OR WHITE MAN PUSHING A BLACK WOMAN TO DEATH? I SMELL HYPOCRISY.
Aggressive and uncontrollable Africans should be silenced on sight.
Let's start today