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A Tampa Police officer taunted and cursed at a group of bystanders during a narcotics arrest in Ybor Heights in June 2022, with footage from a body-worn camera showing him following and hurling insults at a group of residents as they walked away.

The Tampa Police Department later issued a written reprimand to Officer Dukagjin Maxhuni, a 10-year veteran of the department, and moved him to a different district. But the head of the Hillsborough County branch of the NAACP said the footage raises questions about how the Tampa Police Department holds its officers accountable for negative interactions with the Black community.