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A Tarrant City Council member was arrested on Monday night after he punched the city’s Black mayor.
The incident happened after a city council meeting on Monday night, according to Al.com. Mayor Wayman Newton was talking to Tarrant Police Chief Wendell Major near a pick-up truck in the parking lot, surveillance footage released by the Tarrant Police Department shows. That’s when 78-year-old Tarrant City Council member Tommy Bryant approached Newton and punched him.
From ABC 33/40:
“I turned around to have the mayor approach me after I was having a discussion with the councilman, the mayor approached. The councilman told me, the mayor wants to see me, I turned around talked to him. The two exchanged words then the next thing I know the councilman struck the mayor,” said Chief Major.
Bryant was charged Monday with harassment and released on a $1,000 bond.
Read more: https://www.theroot.com/white-alabama-councilman-arrested-for-sucker-punching-1849767088