Police officers are beating people while they are driving, college students are getting tased and drug out of their vehicle, and protesters are kneeling with police only to be teargassed moments later.
Tuesday night, The North Carolina Beat received a video of several Wadesboro, North Carolina police officers threatening, harassing, using profane language, and shining flashlights in a group of men’s faces as well as using those flashlights to block their faces from the men recording the interaction.
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Torrence was arrested on May 8, 2025, and booked into the Mecklenburg County Jail. He bonded out of jail on May 9, 2025. He faces multiple charges, including instigating cruelty to animals, fleeing to elude arrest, and violating probation. Despite the horrific nature of the video, authorities say Torrence was only charged with instigating the act, not the physical act of setting the opossum on fire.
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