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PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (AP) — Police officials in a small, predominantly black Texas college town are defending the decision to use a stun gun on a City Council member when he intervened as officers questioned his friends outside his apartment.

Police say they were questioning four men outside Prairie View City Council Member Jonathan Miller’s apartment about suspicious activity in the neighborhood when Miller interfered on Thursday night. Miller, at a Monday news conference, said he was vouching for his friends and telling officers they were doing nothing wrong.

“It was just concern for my friends. That’s all it was, and that’s all it should have been,” Miller said.

Video from police and from one of Miller’s friends shows officers using a Taser on Miller when he was slow in following police commands. Miller and the officer ordering the use of the Taser are both black.

Police Chief Larry Johnson said Monday that the Taser was used according to policy. He said his department has turned over its evidence to the Waller County district attorney for review.

ORIGINAL STORY: 

Just months after Sandra Bland died in the town of Prairie View, Texas, the same police department arrested and tasered a 29-year-old city councilman,

NBC News reports:

The councilman, Jonathan Miller, was stunned Thursday night in front of his Prairie View, Texas, house, and arrested. The incident was caught on video.

Prairie View police said four men were being questioned about drug activity in the area when Miller, 26, interfered with the investigation. Many of the men being questioned were guests at his home, reported NBC affiliate KPRC.

“Officer, please do not put your hands on me!” Miller, 26, begs at one point in the video. “I live here.”

A male and a female officer tell him repeatedly to put his hands behind his back. When he refuses, they Taser him, causing the councilman to cry out in pain and curse as he falls to the ground.

“Oh yeah, he’s going to jail for resisting,” an officer says.

Miller was charged with interference and resisting arrest and booked at the Waller County jail. He got out on bond Friday morning.

The female officer was involved in the July arrest of Bland, the black woman who died in her jail cell three days after she got pulled over, police said. Miller is also black.

“We have six police officers. The probability of having the same officer involved in multiple types of incidences is probable,” Prairie View Chief of Police Larry Johnson said. “I haven’t seen anything that gave me any cause for concern as far as this officers conduct at this point.”

Bland’s family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against other authorities.

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(Photo Source: KPRC/Video Source: NBC News)