John Cusack films altercation with police in Chicago, says his bike was hit with baton – Fox News

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John Cusack shared a video of himself being screamed at by a police officer in Chicago as he allegedly hit his bicycle with a baton.

The actor, 53, shared a video on his Twitter showing the altercation. Unfortunately, the photography is shaky, so neither he nor the plan of commercial heard yelling are visible. The megastar may maybe possibly additionally be heard announcing “alright, alright” as an officer shouts at him to leave the home. Banging is additionally heard in the clip, which Cusack says was once the police officer hitting his bike with a baton to skedaddle him along.

“Law enforcement officers didn’t worship me filming the burning automotive in bid that they came at me with batons.  Hitting my bike.,” he wrote Sunday. “Ahhm herea [sic] the audio.”

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He shared one more video showing a neighborhood of police officers all the blueprint by the road from him while what appears to be like to be to be a automotive burns in the background in the support of them.

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“These were one of the well-known crucial peace officers — who gently tuned up my bike with their batons,” he wrote.

Cusack joined one among the many protests around the nation sparked by of us outraged over the death of George Floyd. The protests started after a video final week confirmed Floyd, 46, being taken into custody by an officer who areas his knee on his neck. In the photography, Floyd shouts “I can no longer breathe” and “don’t abolish me,” earlier than losing consciousness. He was once later pronounced ineffective.

John Cusack filmed an altercation with a police officer at a grunt in Chicago.
(Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Officer Derek Chauvin was once later charged with third-stage abolish and 2d-stage manslaughter in his death.

Though the actor clearly took scream with the officer who hit his bike, he made run to imprint that no longer all of the police officers who were out in power in Chicago were that aggressive.

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“Many of  police  I talked to final evening – understood rage of the protestors & did their simplest to deescalate for the length of day & into evening,” he wrote. “But After perimeter was once inform around trump tower & bridges raised -it got so shy and violent – the  dynamic changed instantly into chaos.”