ATLANTA -- A Georgia police officer has been fired for using unnecessary force while arresting Desmond Marrow, a former college football player at Toledo, after a video of the incident circulated widely online.
Henry County Police Chief Mark Amerman said in an emailed statement Thursday that Officer David Rose was fired after an internal investigation into the arrest of Marrow in a shopping center parking lot in McDonough, just south of Atlanta, on Dec. 2.
In the one-minute video clip, officers can be seen forcefully taking a handcuffed Marrow to the ground by sweeping his legs out from under him as he yells, "I'm not even fighting back.