Get on the ground. >> Right there. >> GET ON THE GROUND. >> July 26th, 2021, Orangeburg, South Carolina. Officer David Lance Dukes responds to a report of a man with a gun. The man is 58-year-old Clarence Galeyard. Unarmed, disabled, with metal rods and pins in his leg and hip. >> Hey, let me see your ass. B, GET ON THE GROUND. GET ON THE GROUND. >> GET ON THE GROUND RIGHT HERE. GET ON THE GROUND, YOU MURDER YOUR SHIRT. GET ON THE GROUND OVER HERE. >> Body cam captures Dukes drawing his firearm and screaming, "Get on the ground." Over and over. >> Get on the ground. >> Galeard, physically unable to drop flat instantly, lowers himself to his hands and knees. >> ON THE GROUND. >> ON THE GROUND. >> Get on the ground. Do you not listen? >> Get on the ground. Get on the ground. >> Get on the ground. >> There's a gun behind me. >> There's a gun, I believe, behind me. >> I ain't got no gun. Nothing. >> Put your hand behind your back. >> With Gailard already on the ground in a defenseless position. Dukes raises his boot and stomps directly on the back of Gailard's head and neck, >> slamming his forehead into the pavement. No gun. You're not listening, dude. >> Bro, you got a gun on you, man? >> No, I ain't got no gun. I don't want no gun. >> I don't know. You watch him say >> Dukes's later explanation on camera. He thought the shiny object was a gun and that Galeyard's hands were in his pockets. >> No firearm is ever recovered. The object was a stick Galeyard carried to ward off dogs. All right, that's what he had. All right. Who's the complainant? >> All right. Get up. Get Get him up. >> Put the leg up. >> 25 C. Got one T. >> Put the leg that way. Stand up. >> All right. Listen. I'm about to help you. Hold on. Hold on. >> All right. Ready? One, two, three. >> All right. Yep. Listen. >> Yep. They slam my head down on the cement. >> Yeah. >> Go back inside. >> Go back in the house. Go back in the house. Ain't nobody talking to you. >> I got head drummer. >> Go back in the house. >> Yeah. >> Y'all bust my head down. >> I've been in accident. >> Yep. Y'all bust my head down. You throw me down. >> I sure did. You wasn't listening. >> Yeah. No, it ain't. You ain't had to throw me down like that. I'm disability. >> Okay. >> I got head problem. >> Yep. You throw me down. >> Yep. You throw me down. >> You threw me down. >> Gillyard immediately tells officers he is disabled and has head trauma. >> You bust my head. You threw me down. He never stops repeating that he has no gun. >> His forehead. >> You bust my head down on the cement. He was he was in front of the car when I came up and he was walking like this and I I thought it was a gun at first. I said, "Drop the gun. Drop the gun. Drop the gun. Drop gun." Had him at gunpoint. >> He's over here doing something like this. >> You're straight on my head. >> You my head. >> What he was doing is putting this up behind the tire. So he comes over right here. He got his hands in his pockets. I'm telling him, "Let me see your hands. Let me see your hands. Let me see your hands." >> My head. >> He wasn't listening. >> No, it ain't. >> He got the like this right here. >> You proud of me. And we went on to the ground. >> Can you bust my head down on the cement? >> You flush my foot down. >> Your head did hit the cement. >> Damn right. Can you bust me down on the >> Where's the complaint? >> Legally, this is textbook Graham versus Conor analysis. Severity of the crime? None. [clears throat] Immediate threat. None. Once Gailard was on the ground. Resistance slowed only by documented physical disability. The stomp fails every factor. South Carolina defines first-degree assault and battery as causing great bodily injury. Stomping a prone disabled man's head qualifies. That is exactly why Dukes was criminally charged. Anybody had no gun? >> I live right there. Ain't nobody no gun. >> I ain't got no >> I ain't got nothing on you. Put your change in. >> Damn right. You slam me. Slam my head down. >> Guess Sam was going to check him out. >> Ain't nothing here. >> Who called? >> I'm not sure. >> Um, >> take him out of cuffs right now. I mean, cuz that's what we got. >> You have to use it for us. >> Yeah. No doubt. >> Yeah. my head down. >> I didn't know what his camera did wrong. Slam my head down. Bust my forehead. >> Damn right me. >> Mayor, I'm going to take that in the evidence of what he has. What? >> Well, I mean, his uncle, >> you know, that's that's the reasons I did what I did. >> You know what I'm saying? That's where I'm coming from. >> No gun or nothing >> because when he was behind the truck, I couldn't see what he was doing. And I didn't know where >> that ain't nothing >> where that went. Was still in his pockets when he come around that car with his hands in his pockets. His >> door was off on camera. That's fine. So you can come out of co. >> Yes. Take him out an >> Yeah, he can come out. >> Oh lord. Two days after the video surfaced, the Orangeberg Department of Public Safety fired Dukes. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division arrested him for first-degree assault and battery, a felony carrying up to 10 years. Clarence Galeyard later received a $650,000 settlement from the city. The body cam footage left no room for qualified immunity or departmental protection. Accountability was swift and decisive. Hi. >> Good. How are you? What's going on? >> Officer slams down. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Can I get a car for me? >> I don't have one, man. We don't have one. They don't give us cars. >> Okay. What's your badge number? >> 1059. >> Let me see if I can get my phone. Hold on. >> Hold on. We We We have cars. All right. In the blood. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Go to the hospital. >> Brandon, you can get this stuff off. >> Body cams don't lie. When the force is clearly excessive, departments and prosecutors are now forced to act. This case proves it.