BLOUNT COUNTY, Tenn. — Videos were released Thursday showing the moments when Kenneth Wayne DeHart Jr. was taken into custody, from when he was arrested to when he was booked into jail.
He was accused of fatally shooting a Blount County deputy and wounding another during a traffic stop in February. He then led authorities on a five-day manhunt before he was arrested on Feb. 13 in East Knoxville.
Images from his arrest and mugshot showed cuts on his face and bruises. David Rausch, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation director, and the U.S. Marshal for East Tennessee previously said they saw no evidence of police brutality during the arrest.
The video starts just after around 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 13, when deputies moved DeHart Jr. from a Knoxville Police Department cruiser into a car with a Blount County Sheriff's Office deputy. He enters the car with a cut on his eye.
The drive to the Blount County Justice Center takes around 20 minutes from East Knoxville.
"I guess you're their scapegoat. You're their publicity stunt because you're Black, make them look good. Don't justify what you did to me," DeHart Jr. said during the video. " Black man. You're going to watch them kick and beat on me again, man?"
DeHart Jr. also said authorities beat off his glasses, and said he couldn't see.
Rausch previously said the cut underneath DeHart Jr.'s eye may have been caused by a pitbull at the scene of his arrest.
"He got scratches. A lot of times, people do when they're taken to the ground in these situations," said David Jolley, the U.S. Marshall for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
He also said he did not see any civil rights violations during the arrest.
The video also shows the cruiser arriving at the Blount County Justice Center, where officers tell DeHart Jr., "Get your (expletive) out of here." Deputies then bring him into the jail to book him.
He is then dressed in the jail's gray and black jumpsuit. Security camera footage from the Blount County jail does not include audio.
When deputies are finished booking him into the jail, DeHart Jr. is taken outside into another cruiser. Records show he was later booked into Loudon County's jail at 6:24 p.m. the same day.
The full video obtained by WBIR is available below.