Previous reporting: Soldier charged after video of confrontation with Black man in Columbia neighborhood What we know on Jonathan Pentland case: Soldier charged with assaulting Black manleaves home after protest 1st Class Jonathan Pentland to Fort Jackson authorities late yesterday evening." Army’s largest basic training facility, wrote on Twitter Thursday evening that the Richland County Sheriff's Department "transferred Sgt. you wanna bet? I can do a hell of a lot more than you think I can," the man responds.Fort Jackson suspended Jonathan Pentland from instructor duties Thursday, one day after the South Carolina man was charged with third-degree assault.Ī viral video depicted the white 42-year-old accosting and shoving a Black man in a South Carolina neighborhood.įort Jackson, the U.S. "Are you an officer of the law?" Deandre asks him. He refuses to identify himself when asked by Deandre. You either get your a** moving or I'm going to move you. Getting up close to the Deandre's face, he adds: "Check it out motherf*****, I ain't playing with you. I have never seen you before in my life." Pentland said that he lives in a "tight-knit community," adding: "We take care of each other. When Pentland again accuses Deandre of "harassing" the neighborhood, Deandre replies: "I'm not harassing anyone, I'm walking through the neighborhood, I live here, sir." "Where? Where's your house? What's your address?" Pentland asks. You're in the wrong neighborhood motherf*****. "What are you going to do? Let's go, walk away. "You better not touch me," Deandre tells him, remaining calm throughout the video. He continues: "Check it out, you either walk away or I'm going to carry your a** out of here." Raising his voice, he ads: "You walk away. He then accuses Deandre of "aggressing on the neighborhood" and, as Deandre moves a little closer to his wife, he shoves Deandre in the shoulder. He then denies hitting Deandre, adding that "there's a difference between pushing you." "Well you've been here like 15 minutes now," Pentland's wife interjects. "What is it that you are doing here?" Pentland asks Deandre. The couple accuse Deandre of "picking fights" with people in the neighborhood. In the video, Deandre tells Johnson to call the police, and a woman-identified by Pentland as his wife-says that they have already been called. Newsweek has contacted Fort Jackson, Johnson, the Richland County Sheriff's Office and the Columbia Police Department for comment. The only thing he did was be black while walking!!!" She said she and a friend "circled back to get him out of that situation bc we refused to see D go to jail or lying there dead simply bc he was black. "The officer told us that his supervisor told him that he could only charge the white guy with malicious injury to property and not assault!" Johnson wrote. She added that she waited at the scene until an officer arrived, and repeatedly told them that Deandre had been assaulted. Johnson said the video did not capture the man slapping Deandre's hand, prompting his phone to fall to the ground and crack. "She saw the young man in distress and knew he didn't do anything wrong so she started videoing for his safety!" Johnson wrote. Another woman filmed the video, Johnson said, and she posted it with her permission. On Facebook, Johnson said she and a friend had been walking in the neighborhood on Monday when they saw what was happening. Department of Justice at the federal level is also looking into the incident.- Fort Jackson Post CSM April 14, 2021 UPDATE//: The Soldier in the video is stationed at Fort Jackson and has been charged by Richland County Sheriff's Department. The force noted the viral video "provided additional evidence" in the case, adding that Pentland had been booked into the Alvin S. Army Sergeant assigned to Fort Jackson, the Richland County Sheriff's Department told Newsweek. Pentland was arrested and charged with third-degree assault and battery on Wednesday morning.Īt the time of his arrest, he was an active U.S. Johnson named the other man only as Deandre.Īn incident report shared with Newsweek said deputies arrived at the scene in the Summit Neighborhood of Columbia to a "physical dispute" and were informed by witnesses that Pentland "pushed in the chest two times and slapped his cell phone out of his hands." The clip, first posted to Facebook by Shirrell Johnson, has been watched more than two million times. Army Staff Sergeant Captain, 42, threatening and yelling at the man, repeatedly telling him to leave and, at one point, pushing him violently. Soldier Jonathan Pentland has made headlines after he was seen aggressively shoving and harassing a Black man on a sidewalk in a South Carolina neighborhood on Monday.
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