Police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are being criticized for the arrest of a black Harvard student in which the 21-year-old was pinned down and struck in the stomach repeatedly by an officer.
The student, who police identified as Selorm Ohene, was arrested around 10 p.m. Friday and charged with disorderly conduct, indecent exposure, resisting arrest and assault after police found him nude in the middle of a main street “acting completely irrational.” The man had been the subject of at least seven emergency calls, including one from a woman who said he had thrown his clothes at her.
Police said a woman they believed to be an acquaintance of Ohene told them that he had taken drugs that evening.