The Boston Globe reports…..The Harvard College student whose arrest by Cambridge and Transit Police officers has sparked debate over police use of force is now represented by two Harvard Law School professors, who said their client won’t be speaking publicly any time soon.
Selorm Ohene, 21, a mathematics major at Harvard, was arrested by police last Friday during an encounter. Police said Ohene was naked, appeared to be delusional, and was combative with officers. The arrest was captured on video, and one officer is seen delivering blows to Ohene while he was being restrained by other officers, critics of the police contend.
Cambridge Police Commissioner Branville G. Bard Jr. has defended the officers’ actions, while Harvard University president Drew Faust called the incident “profoundly disturbing” and Cambridge Mayor Marc McGovern has expressed similar concerns.
Ohene won’t provide a public account of what happened to him or be stepping into the public debate about whether police used excessive force during their encounter, his attorneys said.
