He noted that the young man was acting strangely, smelled of weed and started yelling, "I need my mom".
The officer said Hollins didn't initially pull over, but his auto eventually stalled out.
Several seconds later, a second officer runs up and kicks the driver in the head. Officer Robert McDonald, who joined the department in 2013, responded as backup to a traffic stop on Wednesday, when he found a fellow officer with Demetrius Hollins, who had been placed under arrest.
A second video discovered by police, taken by a witness from a different angle, "shows the man getting out of the auto with both hands up", according to police.
But the trouble for the department did not end there. Shortly thereafter, Officer McDonald bolts toward Hollins and stomps him in the head.
Hollins was released on April 13 on a $7,500 bond, officials said. Police said he also had written a 161-page antigovernment and anti-religion manifesto, which he apparently mailed to President Trump at the White House. It doesn't mention any contact between McDonald and Hollins.
In 2006, a black man who was being arrested claimed that Bongiovanni choke slammed him on a vehicle, punched him twice in the face, and elbowed him twice in the head.
The video was posted on Twitter Wednesday and quickly went viral. Another officer then comes running around the corner and delivers a forceful stomp to the face of the man before assisting the other officer in the arrest.
Rosanna Szabo said Friday she is dropping all cases in which Robert McDonald or Michael Bongiovanni were either the principal officer or a necessary witness. Ayers said McDonald apologized for his actions and showed remorse.
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"I wish this never happened to me", Hollins told reporters in the company of his attorneys. He said nothing about a punch.
The first video was shot by Kent Jones, who just happened to be driving in the area, shot that video.
Ayers said, he was stunned.
"We acknowledge that the actions of these two officers have implications that will be felt for some time", Thursday's statement said.
"We've put a lot of money into recruiting, training and equipping them, and there is literally no excuse for behavior like this". This is not what we teach in the academy.
Police identified that officer as Sgt. Michael Bongiavonni.
"Officer McDonald always deals with members of the community in a courteous, professional manner", one supervisor wrote. The officer was sent home on administrative leave and his department-issued gun was taken.
It wasn't long ago, for instance, that Chicago and its police department were widely criticized for taking more than 400 days to release dashboard camera footage of the 2014 fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald.
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