Video: Former Washington State Football Player Slammed to the Ground, Police Sued

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Body camera and surveillance footage released by police in Pullman, Washington, shows the arrest of former Washington State University football player Treshon Broughton.

Broughton, who graduated from WSU in 2017 after he played cornerback for two seasons, alleged in a lawsuit against the Pullman Police Department that its officers used excessive force in his 2017 arrest, according to the Spokane Spokesman-Review.

In the incident, he’s seen pulling away from officers and refused to put his hands behind his back as they tried to arrest him, the paper noted. An officer hit the former football player with a Taser.

Officers and witnesses said he was drunk during the incident. The paper reported that he was accused of trying to spend a counterfeit $20 bill at the convenience store. He wasn’t charged for that offense, and the counterfeit money wasn’t found.

“You got I.D. with you, partner?,” an officer asks Broughton in the video, KXLY reported. “Yeah I got I.D.,” Broughton says back to him. “It’s probably around here somewhere. You can see whatever.”

As he tries to take the items off the counter, the officer grabs him. “I don’t want to get arrested,” Broughton says, according to the report. “I’m showing you my I.D.!”

Officers can be heard shouting at Broughton to “get on the ground,” while saying he’s under arrest for using a counterfeit bill.

Body camera and surveillance footage obtained from police in Pullman, Washington, shows the arrest of former Washington State University football player Treshon Broughton in February of 2017 that led him to file a lawsuit for excessive force. (City of Pullman via Storyful)

The lawsuit calls the officer’s takedown “objectively unreasonable and unnecessary,” the news station reported.

Pullman Police on Nov. 14 tweeted it “takes seriously our responsibility to protect & serve our community and all of its members. We are listening and we care.” In a statement, the police chief, Gary Jenkins, said his office can’t comment on the lawsuit.