Nashville’s own Jeremiah Payne returned to Clarksville, Tennessee, in new footage released to his YouTube channel that he said was shot on Saturday of a man being arrested for domestic battery at a gas station.
In the video, Payne walks around several police cruisers and notes their car numbers and mockingly asks himself if the gas station is having a sale on donuts. The cruisers were from a mix of state, county and local police departments. Several of the officers stood in front of the store as Payne approached.
Payne observed Tennessee’s new halo law requiring him to stand 25 feet away from the officers for the most part while insulting the officers under his breath as he was too far away for them to hear his insults.
Eventually, he was asked what he was doing by a store worker, and he told the worker to look up his YouTube channel. That worker offered no information other than the police “just showed up.”
Payne told the worker that while he, his wife and his daughter moved to Nashville, his mother remained in Clarksville and he was bringing her supplies when he saw the police activity in the gas station parking lot.
Eventually, the officers approached a black man in the parking lot who was standing with a woman. The woman began screaming that the man “didn’t do nothing.” The man was immediately put in handcuffs and taken to a squad car.
Payne approached the woman, who said that the man raised his hands to the woman but did not assault her. Payne added that in the state of Tennessee, police must witness a crime to arrest someone for it.
The woman began yelling at police that she was not a victim and the man did nothing to harm her. The man answered by yelling that he did nothing and again, Payne shouted that the police needed to witness the crime for them to arrest for it. He then added that in the state of Tennessee “the man always goes to jail.”
He was asked to step away from the scene and he complained that he was “more than 15 feet away” and began to degrade and insult the officers. He praised Nashville police, who he claimed allowed him to get “shoulder to shoulder” with them on a crime scene because they’re not “pussy bitches.”
Payne advised the woman that she needed to “get ahold of the commissioner first thing in the morning” to complain about the arrest. He started shouting that it was a racial incident since all of the officers were white and the arrested man was black.
The YouTuber also advised the woman that she could go to the Montgomery County website and demand the bodycam footage of the incident and they would provide it to her in “a couple of hours.”
He went on to rant that police stations across the country were being defunded because of actions like this then ranted at a passerby that he was black and that he needed to leave or else the police were going to arrest him for being black.
When the woman asked for her phone from the man who was in custody, as it was in her name, police told her that she could not have it because it was on his person at the time of the arrest.
This enraged Payne, who started screaming at the police that they were “dismissed” as they drove off and were out of earshot.
Payne addressed the situation in the description of the video:
“funny when I got assaulted and I called the police I was told by the police department that because they did not witness the crime they cannot arrest for it that in the state of Tennessee a cop has to witness a crime in order to arrest for it but yet six white cops arrest a black man for throwing his hands up in the air not even in her face or anything just throwing his arms up in the air and walking off and they arrest him for domestic violence everyone do not call the Montgomery county jail in Clarksville Tennessee phone number will be listed below if you would like to readdress your grievances please do it in a respectable manner and let the tyrants know this isn’t Nazi Germany and again we had to bald-headed freak who’s so big of a p**** that he told me I had to be 15 ft away because I had a camera in my hand because he didn’t want that camera showing what they were doing to a black man and then the way they were jerking him around to make it look like he was resisting this is what Clarksville Tennessee does guys this is what I’ve been trying to tell you all and I’m going to catch more and more of their s*** just because I moved back to Nashville I’m still going to be a thorn in the motherfuker side”
Online police records searches for a black man by the name that Payne provided returned no results as of press time.
Payne’s video has had 104 views and 0 comments as of press time.
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