Officer filmed punching black teenager faces assault charge

A WHITE police officer videotaped punching a black teenager during an arrest in Los Angeles has been charged with assault.

Inglewood officer Jeremy Morse was yesterday due to surrender to face a charge of assault under colour of authority, said his lawyer John Barnett.

A bystander taped Morse slamming 16-year-old Donovan Jackson on to the boot of a police car and then punching him in the head on July 7.