Former Arkansas officer pleaded guilty for violating the civil rights of a man.

A former Arkansas law enforcement officer is sentenced for repeatedly punching a man during a violent arrest in 2022.

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Former Crawford County sheriff’s Deputy Levi White, in April pleaded guilty to a repeated counts of deprivation of rights under color of law during August 21, 2022, in case of arresting Randal Worcester outside a convenience store.

U.S district Judge Susan O. Hickey sentenced former Crawford sheriff’s Deputy Levi White to  63 months imprisonment, with credit for time served on Wednesday. He ordered that White has to be confined to the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners. He recommended that White receive medical health counselling while being constricted at the facility in Springfield, Missouri.

White and another Former deputy, Zackary king, were charged by federal prosecutors for the arrest last year when a bystander recorded them beating a man and arresting him in a small town of Mulberry, approximately 220kms northwest of  Little Rock, near the border of Oklahoma. The video of arrest was shared online by the bystander.

A third officer was also caught in the video, Mulberry Police Officer Thell Riddle. He was not charged in the case as the video depicted King and White beating Worcester as Riddle held him down. White violently slammed Worcester’s head onto the pavement.

King who was seen with White in the video also pleaded guilty. He was scheduled to be sentenced on Thursday.

Police said that Worcester was being questioned for threatening a clerk at the store where he tackled one of the deputies and punched him in the head before the arrest. A trail in February is set for Worcester on charges related to the arrest.

Worcester filed a lawsuit in 2022 against the three officers but the case has been put on hold while the criminal cases related to the arrest are still going on.

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