{"id":244119,"date":"2026-07-15T17:05:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244119\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:05:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:05:59","slug":"city-of-erie-provides-update-on-video-of-officer-striking-suspect-with-car-fists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244119\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Erie provides update on video of officer striking suspect with car, fists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(WJET\/WFXP)\u2013 The City of Erie said Wednesday they&#8217;re close to finishing their investigation into a video of a police officer striking a suspect with their cruiser then punching him while handcuffed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The city announced on their social media they&#8217;re in the final stages of reviewing the evidence available to them and expects to release a full, comprehensive report by the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation follows the circulation of a social media video that appears to show a City of Erie police cruiser colliding with 41-year-old Keven Sparks during an arrest, followed by officers hitting him multiple times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to court documents, Sparks was wanted for theft and trespassing and had outstanding warrants in Erie and Venango counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The video has been widely shared since the incident occurred on June 28 and has sparked broader conversations about the Erie Police Department&#8217;s relationship with the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WJET\/WFXP)\u2013 The City of Erie said Wednesday they&#8217;re close to finishing their investigation into a video of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[841,136,138,137,100154,23867,2296,3652,420],"class_list":["post-244119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-city-of-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-keven-sparks","tag-police-cruiser","tag-police-officer","tag-social-media","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}