Southfield Police say claims of excessive force false after Facebook post

Southfield Police Chief says man’s claim of being pepper-sprayed untrue The chief of police in Southfield said a man who said he was roughed up and pepper-sprayed last week wasn’t true. SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (FOX 2) – The Southfield Police Department has responded to allegations of excessive force after a police stop last week. A video posted on social media claimed a man was stopped by police, ripped from his truck, and then pepper-sprayed. But on Monday, police released its own video. A Facebook post that went up last week by the user TJ Monroe has been shared hundreds of times. He claims he was thrown to the ground and pepper-sprayed during the traffic stop on Southfield Road near 12 Mile. When Southfield Police Chief Elvin Barren spoke on Monday, he released body-cam video that showed Monroe was cuffed for a short time. But Barren said there was no pepper spray. “He was not pepper-sprayed – in fact, the Southfield Police Department, we’re not even equipped to pepper spray,” Barren said. It started with a 911 call. The caller said his car was stolen and saw it driving north on Southfield Road. That call to police led them to the Dodge…
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