ALBANY — A Facebook video of a man appearing to be ripped out of his car by near Albany Town Hall on May 20 has gone viral. State police said the man was uncooperative and they denied doing anything wrong.
The man is Jean Ronald Saint Preux, 34, of Albany. He did a video chat interview with an outlet called Freedom Media Canada. His video was also posted to worldstarhiphop.com, where it has been viewed 310,000 times.
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so the fact that the courageous documentation of this stunning use of force went viral is what made the headline / what makes it newsworthy?
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