Viola claims that what Barkowsky captured on video was the end of a longer interaction that his cops had with Ricciuti. He was running away with one handcuff on.” “We have the full body cams video of everything that happened,” Viola explains to Philly Mag, adding that he cannot release those videos at this time while the Delaware County District Attorney’s office investigates the incident. Some who have seen the video call it “shocking.”īut Haverford Township police chief John Viola insists Barkowsky’s video doesn’t tell the whole story. Here is the video that Barkowsky captured on Sunday, depicting two unidentified Haverford Township police officers and Christopher Ricciuti, a 30-year-old man from Broomall: How do you roll over when you have a knee on your chest? You can’t comply with that order.” “And the one cop kept telling him to roll over onto his stomach, but the other cop had his knee on his chest. “He was screaming for help, saying, ‘They’re not cops!’,” Barkowsky continues. And I crossed through traffic to get a better look.” And as soon as that happened, I started recording. “I was on the phone with my girlfriend, and I seen this guy walking and two officers approach him,” Barkowsky recalls. Barkowsky, a 33-year-old cook at a nearby restaurant, was walking home when he noticed something going down in the Kohl’s parking lot across the street.

Upper Darby resident Andrew Barkowsky had just finished grocery shopping at the Giant supermarket, which is south of Kohl’s on Township Line Road.

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