It was over a noise complaint that Massachusetts police arrested a shirtless and shoeless Black man named Sodiq Folarin Amusat in March 2023 as temperatures dropped below freezing.

But the Lawrence police officers inside the booking room became annoyed after Amusat repeatedly asked for a sweatshirt and for the reasons he had been arrested, refusing to answer his questions or provide him with the sweatshirt his friend had brought to the station.

Lawrence Police Capt. Michael Mangan became so irritated by his persistent questions that he clotheslined Amusat by wrapping his right arm around his neck and forcing him backwards, causing Amusat’s head to strike a metal door, prompting two other cops to pile on top of him along with the captain.

Mangan then lied in his report, claiming he was o

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