Black men being beaten by police over minuscule things is not a new thing: In January, a Florida Black man was beaten by police over a Banana after he was wrongly accused of stealing it. In July 2023, a New York Black man was fatally shot by police after he was accused of eating fruit from a supermarket without paying for it.

So it would come as no surprise that Corriyon Bray, a 30-year-Black man, was allegedly beaten by police after he didn’t return a pen to a Georgia police officer during a traffic stop, according to WSB-TV.

Though the incident occurred in December 2023, the footage was just released over the weekend and it shows Bray’s entire encounter with authorities that led to him being tased and having one of his legs broken.

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The body camera video shows the officer hand a pen to Bray, who signed the ticket and then drove away with the officer’s pen. That’s when things escalated.

In the video, you can hear the officer demand Bray return his pen. Instead, Bray held the pen out of the window as he pulled away.

As Bray drove away, you can hear one of the officers yelling, “That motherf****r. He stole my f***ing pen!”

The officers followed Bray to his home where they asked for the pen again. One of the officers says, “Give it to me, or I’m going to tase you.”

Bray claimed that he did not have the pen. This resulted in one of the officers tasing Bray while the other attempted to take him into custody, allegedly breaking his leg in the process.

In response to the footage, Greenville Police Chief Wayne Frazier claims that his officers handled the incident perfectly, telling WSB-TV, “If he had complied, none of this would have happened. Our SOP [standard operating procedures] says verbal, hands-on, less lethal, and lethal, and he followed protocol.”

Bray has plans to file a lawsuit against the officers and says that a normal traffic stop should not have ended in his leg being broken over a pen.