WOODSON TERRACE, Mo. _ The FBI has requested a dashcam video that appears to show a Missouri officer kicking a man authorities say crashed a stolen car into a police car last month.
Velda City Police Chief Dan Paulino said Wednesday that a dash camera inside one of his patrol cars captured the April 14 incident in which Isaiah Forman, 21, appears to be kicked by the Woodson Terrace police officer while he is on the ground.
Paulino said he could not release a copy of the video because the FBI, Woodson Terrace and St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell's office had requested copies of it after St. Louis TV station KMOV aired the video.
"Once it's part of a criminal investigation, we cannot release it," Paulino said.
Forman, 21, was behind the wheel of a stolen car that hit a St. Ann police officer's car that night, ending a chase through several communities about 10 minutes after another man allegedly took the vehicle from a woman in an armed carjacking at a Schnucks store in Bridgeton, police said.
The video shows Forman getting out of the vehicle with his hands up and lying on the ground while a Woodson Terrace police officer suddenly darts into the frame and appears to kick him in the head while he is down. A Pagedale officer quickly appears and seems to be talking to the Woodson Terrace officer while Forman remains on the ground, Paulino said.
Forman has been charged with second-degree assault on a special victim after the crash into the St. Ann police car. The accused carjacker, Eddie Lee Edwards, 22, has been charged with first-degree robbery.
The Woodson Terrace Police Department has not returned a phone call seeking comment.
Woodson Terrace has about 21 police officers, according to the Missouri Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission, in a town of about 4,000 in northwest St. Louis County.
