Friends of Delonte West say they are trying to help the former NBA star after a video surfaced Monday showing West handcuffed and shirtless on the side of a road just outside of Washington.
In the video, which was posted on Twitter, an unidentified man asks West why he had just been attacked and whether he had been acting in self-defense. West said he was walking down the street in Maryland when a man approached him with a gun; he then says a number of unintelligible things.
Prince George’s County Police Chief Henry Stawinski told reporters Tuesday afternoon that the officer who recorded the interaction with a handcuffed West was suspended pending an investigation into how the footage was made public.