Dash cam footage that captured the violent 2013 arrest of a 30-year-old black man by a Dover, Delaware, police officer was deemed no longer confidential by a federal judge and posted to the Dover Police Department's YouTube channel on Thursday.
The video shows the man, Lateef Dickerson, being stopped by two police officers on Aug. 24, 2013. As he lowers himself to the ground, submitting to the officers' calls to do just that, one of the police officers kicks the man directly in the head.
His yellow hat goes flying and Dickerson falls to the pavement unconscious, his jaw broken.
Webster arrested Dickerson after a large fight at a gas station. Dickerson fled on foot but appeared to be cooperating with police when they ordered him to the ground.
Based on the incident, the Dover Police Department initiated an investigation and Webster was placed on paid administrative leave. The ACLU sued Dover Police on Dickerson's behalf, after a previous grand jury declined to indict Webster last year.
In May 4, 2015, the Dover Police Department finally placed Webster on unpaid leave when the Delaware Attorney General’s office took this case before a second grand jury that indicted Webster on a charge of second degree assault for the violent attack.
Webster turned himself in to authorities on May 4 and he was released on $5,000 bond.