Royse City Police reviewing violent incident involving officer at public pool

A Royse City Police officer has been placed on administrative leave as the department reviews his actions during a disturbance at a neighborhood pool this week.Royse City pool disturbanceOn Tuesday, August 4, Royse City Police responded to a disturbance call at a community pool in the Creekside neighborhood.Police arrested Janiaca Wheeler and her daughter, Amaiyah Allen-Smith, after responding to the call.Both women were charged following their arrest, but the charges were dropped by Royse City PD the following morning.Viral video of the incident shows a Royse City police officer throwing Wheeler and Allen-Smith to the ground by their hair.The Next Generation Action Network reports that the officer continued to pull Wheeler's hair after she had been handcuffed.One of the officers can be seen pushing a woman holding a child as the two were being escorted to a police cruiser, and pushing another woman in the head twice.Wheeler says six of her dreadlocks were pulled out during the inciden
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