MANSFIELD, Ohio (WOIO) - Exclusive bodycam footage of a wild encounter with Mansfield police shows an officer body-slamming a man — fracturing several of his ribs — all for jaywalking.

Charles Roberts says the quick actions of a young Mansfield police officer changed his life forever.

“I’m sorry,” said Charles Roberts, crying uncontrollably as we showed him bodycam footage of the incident.

It was the first time he had seen it.

The incident happened on April 22, just before 1 a.m. at 200 West Fourth Street in Mansfield, at the corner of West 4th Street and Bowman Street.

Roberts, who lived just a block away, says he was walking to New Millinium Car Wash & Mini Mart to get a 50-cent soda from the vending machine.

Instead, he got popped with something he never expected.

“This officer b

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