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As Outrage Grows Over Arrest Video, Critics Point to Broader Concerns With East Lansing Police

In a recently posted video, an ELPD officer can be seen repeatedly striking a 20-year-old Black woman who was restrained by other officers.

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As Outrage Grows Over Arrest Video, Critics Point to Broader Concerns With East Lansing Police
Shannon (left), the mother of a 20-year-old woman punched by an ELPD officer, is joined by Nadia Sellers at the podium during the Aug. 5 East Lansing Independent Police Oversight Commission meeting. ELPD was heavily criticized last year after video surfaced of an officer pepper spraying Sellers' son. (Anna Liz Nichols for ELi)