The incident is reported to have happened in Dublin.
A video of a Garda allegedly pepper-spraying a homeless man in Dublin over the weekend has gone viral on Facebook.
The clip, which was uploaded by DIT student Philip Campion, has been viewed over 370,000 times as of this morning.
Here’s the clip.
Here’s what Philip wrote in the video description:
“This happened on my way home from college yesterday its absolutely outrageous behavior by a Garda on Henry Street Dublin.
“A poor homeless man was treated like an animal, when a Garda tried to arrest him he pushed him against the floor and pepper sprayed him right in the eyes when the poor man was clearly not making any sort of an attack or movement towards the Garda.
“He then stood there with his leg on the man as if the man was going to run somewhere. This is the sort of thing that really pisses me off.”
According to the Irish Times, a Garda spokesman said they could not comment on the video as “its contents had yet to be verified”.
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