Milwaukee family calls for accountability, claims police used 'excessive force' during arrest A family is calling for accountability after they said Milwaukee police used excessive force during an arrest near Palmer Street and Keefe Avenue on Oct. 8.



A family is calling for accountability after they said Milwaukee police used excessive force during an arrest.

According to civil rights attorney B'Ivory LaMarr, 24-year-old Nicholas Beamon was struck multiple times in the head during an arrest on Oct. 8. He said Beamon has severe injuries.


 What we've seen on this video is just appalling. I believe that this was a clear abuse of force. I believe that the force was excessive. I believe it was unconstitutional,  LaMarr said.  He has been to the emergency room twice, and that he will be following up with specialists as it relates to what he succumbed to back on Oct. 8. 

Milwaukee police said they initially pulled the vehicle over for a  license plate violation  near Palmer Street and Keefe Avenue just before 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 8.

Police said, in an email to 12 News, two of the vehicle's passengers were uncooperative and refused to identify themselves. Police also said Beamon had a firearm in his front sweatshirt pocket and  officers attempted to engage in dialogue with that subject to advise him that he was being detained for the safety of the officers on scene. 

LaMarr said Beamon had the gun legally and alerted police he had the firearm.

 It's my understanding that Nicholas declared to the officers that he did have the firearm,  LaMarr said.  He's the one that told them, which their response was, they started screaming about a firearm. 

Police said Beamon became combative, began to pull away from officers and tried to reach toward the front of his sweatshirt pocket multiple times, even after officers handcuffed him.

In video obtained by 12 News, you can see an officer searching the front pockets of Beamon's sweatshirt as Beamon begins to turn. Seconds later is when Beamon and the officers are on the ground and a third officer appears to strike him repeatedly.

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