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In March of last year, a Maine State Police trooper pinned a handcuffed man to the ground and repeatedly punched him in the face while arresting him at his home in rural York County.

Video footage of the arrest obtained by The Maine Monitor and the Bangor Daily News shows an incident that began calmly but spiraled out of control after troopers threw the man to the ground, later striking his bloodied face as he was restrained and yelling that he could not breathe. The man, Just

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