A New South Wales police officer has been found guilty of assaulting an Indigenous teenager during an arrest in Sydney in 2020.Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVE Read more here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-2...

Video of the incident shows Constable Ryan Barlow holding the 16-year-old's arms behind his back and using a "leg sweep" to take him to the ground.

Magistrate Rami Attia told Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court Barlow remained in control of the teenager throughout the physical altercation, and said the boy was complying with the arrest.

Barlow pleaded not guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm over the incident at Ward Park in Surry Hills, where he and two colleagues stopped a group of teenagers on June 1, 2020.

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