DALLAS — Police video launched Monday exhibits U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas being taken to the bottom by officers, profanely berating them and threatening to report them to the governor throughout an altercation at a rodeo final month.
In physique digital camera video, the previous White House doctor may be seen approaching a gaggle of individuals surrounding a 15-year-old woman who authorities have mentioned was having seizures. The two-term Republican congressman later has what appears to be like like an argument with one of many folks attending to {the teenager} earlier than she is placed on a stretcher.
Shortly afterward, Jackson is wrestled to the bottom by a minimum of two officers. The 31-minute video, which has sound in just some parts, exhibits officers turning Jackson facedown and placing him in handcuffs earlier than serving to him to his ft.
“I’m going to call the governor tomorrow and I’m going to talk to him about this (expletive), because this is (expletive) ridiculous,” Jackson can later be heard telling a state trooper, his voice raised.
Jackson and a spokesperson for his workplace didn’t reply to calls and an e-mail looking for remark Monday.
State police launched the video footage after Jackson defended his actions on social media final week. He posted that native authorities close to Amarillo prevented him “from giving medical care in a potentially life-threatening situation due to overly aggressive and incompetent actions” by officers on the scene.
Shortly after the encounter, Carson County Sheriff Tam Terry talked with Jackson by cellphone. According to the sheriff’s written report, Jackson repeatedly informed Terry that there wanted to be penalties for the deputies who had handcuffed him. After Terry responded that he didn’t have to be threatened, Jackson mentioned that “he would pull hell and high water and come and ‘bury me in the next election,’” the sheriff wrote.
Jackson was elected in 2020 after gaining notoriety for his over-the-top pronouncements about then-President Donald Trump’s well being whereas serving as a high White House doctor. A yr later, the Department of Defense inspector common launched a scathing report about Jackson’s conduct whereas on the job on the White House.
The report concluded that Jackson made “sexual and denigrating” feedback a few feminine subordinate, violated the coverage on ingesting alcohol on a presidential journey and took prescription-strength sleeping treatment that prompted worries from his colleagues about his skill to offer correct medical care.
Jackson denied the allegations and mentioned on the time that the report was a “political hit job.”
• Weber reported from Austin, Texas.
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