Man seen in viral Crawford County arrest video acquitted of all charges

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CRAWFORD COUNTY, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — A man whose violent arrest by police was caught on video in 2022 has been acquitted of all charges days before his trial was set to begin.

Randal Worcester, 28, of Goose Creek, South Carolina, was arrested in August 2022 after an encounter with Crawford County deputies and a Mulberry officer, and faced charges including terroristic threatening, battery and resisting arrest.

According to court documents, all charges against him were dropped in a court filing on June 20.

In Worcester’s mental evaluation, Worcester was diagnosed with “unspecified schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorder.”

Court documents note that although Worcester was deemed mentally fit enough to stand trial, he “did not have the capacity to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law” at the time of his arrest.

Worcester pleaded not guilty to all charges throughout the course of this case.

Case background

Worcester made headlines in 2022 when video of his arrest went viral. The video showed him being beaten by sheriff’s deputies and a police officer while being handcuffed and was posted to social media.

The deputies in that video, Levi White and Zackary King, pleaded guilty to one count of deprivation of rights under color of law causing bodily injury.

White was sentenced to five years in federal prison, and King was sentenced to one year in federal prison with one year of supervised release. White has since appealed his sentence.