Body camera shows exchange between police and a cited singing man

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Body camera footage from an interaction between the Hephzibah Police Department and a man who was walking down the street offers more detail about the incident.

Christopher Jefferson was cited Sept. 13 by Hephzibah Police with disorderly conduct and profanity. He was handcuffed and placed in the back of a patrol car before being let go with a citation.

According to a different video recorded by his wife, Amie Davis-Jefferson, the Hephzibah Police said Jefferson was interfering in an investigation.

The city's legal counsel said the video from Hephzibah Police Chief Matthew Mercer's body camera is the only video available from the incident, since the other two officers did not have body cameras.

Before Jefferson shows up
The body camera video starts with Mercer and officers Bennie Chavous and Brian Tucker approaching a home on Brothersville Road.

While at the home, Tucker is seen talking to a man at the side door, who tells them he knows why they are there.

While Tucker takes down the man's information, a man can be heard singing loudly while walking down the street. It is unclear the words he is singing, but Jefferson told The Augusta Chronicle, he was singing Gucci Mane's "First Day Out Tha Feds," which includes two profanities toward the end of the song, as well as a racial epithet twice.

In Mercer's body camera video, Tucker is seen turning around and approaching Jefferson.

Interaction between Jefferson and police
Around the 9 minute and 30 second mark of the video, Tucker approaches Jefferson and tells him to "bring it down" and that Jefferson is yelling profanity while walking down the road.

Jefferson: “I ain’t trying to be disrespectful, it’s not like that.”

Tucker: “Don’t be cussing up and down the road.”

Jefferson: “Whatcha mean? This is a free country.”

Tucker: “You are not going to disturb everybody, you understand that?”

Jefferson tells the officer he is going to call his wife, Amie Davis-Jefferson. Tucker tells him to call her and that if he is walking down the road, to do it quietly.

Jefferson says he is tired of Hephzibah Police harassing him. Jefferson would later tell The Augusta Chronicle that in the past month, Hephzibah Police officers have also approached him about his music and for leaving his car running unattended.

Tucker tells Jefferson that he isn't harassing him and steps closer. He tells Jefferson he has five seconds to leave the area.

While he is walking away, Tucker is heard using profanity while saying, “Don’t let me catch you (expletive) walking down the road again.”

Jefferson stops..

Jefferson: “Can I ask what your name is, sir?”

Tucker: “My name is Tucker.”

Jefferson asks to take a picture of Tucker's badge and name as Tucker is walking back to the man in the house. Tucker then walks back to Jefferson, drops his notepad and grabs his handcuffs, before going behind Jefferson's back and handcuffing him.

Jefferson: “Come on man, I did nothing to nobody.”

After Tucker puts Jefferson in handcuffs, he pats him down. Jefferson claims Tucker grabbed him by the throat and threw him to the ground while already handcuffed on one hand. In the video, Tucker can be seen placing his hand around Jefferson's neck area and pushing him lightly to sit down next to a tree. Jefferson later told The Chronicle he was injured and had to go to the hospital.

During the interaction, the body cam video shows Chavous standing near Jefferson and Tucker without saying anything. Mercer, who is recording the interaction on his body camera, is not heard talking to Jefferson until he is on the ground. After Tucker leaves to talk to the man at the house again, Jefferson asks for help calling his wife.

Decision to cite him
After Jefferson is placed in the back of a police car, Mercer, Chavous and Tucker gather away from Davis-Jefferson to discuss what they are going to do.

In the bodycam video, Tucker says Jefferson should be cited for disorderly conduct. Mercer mentions freedom of speech, but Tucker asks, "What do you mean?"

After a moment, Tucker says "Oh, oh" and nods..

Mercer: “The fact that he wouldn’t move on, would be a disorderly.”

Tucker: “The problem is, we are trying to do an investigation.”

Mercer: “And he is interfering with the investigation.”

Mercer: “I would say, let’s just write him a ticket … for disorderly because he was interfering with the investigation. I got it on body cam.”

Tucker: “Yeah, that sounds good.”

After the conversation, Tucker is seeing giving Jefferson the citation for disorderly conduct and profanity.