Police lights are pictured in an undated file image. MULBERRY, Ark. - Three Arkansas law enforcement officers have been suspended and a state police investigation was launched after a video posted on social media showed a suspect being held down on the ground and beaten by police.Arkansas State Police said Sunday night that it would investigate the use of force by the officers earlier in the day outside a convenience store in Mulberry, about 140 miles (220 kilometers) northwest of Little Rock.Two Crawford County sheriff's deputies and one Mulberry police officer were suspended Sunday, city and county authorities said.
The officers were responding to a report of a man making threats outside the convenience store, authorities said.State police identified the man as Randall Worcester, 27, of Goose Creek, South Carolina.
The video posted online shows one officer punching Worcester with a clenched fist, while another can be seen kneeing him, and a third is holding him down.Warning: Embedded video shows graphic contentWorcester was taken to a hospital for treatment Sunday then released and booked in the Van Buren County jail on multiple charges, including second-degree battery, resisting arrest and terroristic threatening, state police said.Authorities have not released the names of the three officers who were seen on the video.