Video shows Ohio police pull disabled driver from car during drug-related traffic stop

Officials in Dayton, Ohio, say they are investigating the actions of officers who pulled a driver who said he was disabled from his car during a drug-related traffic stop last month that was captured on police bodycam video. Clifford Owensby, 39, who said he does not have use of his legs, said he felt helpless when he was removed from the car to the ground and handcuffed before being placed in the back of a Dayton Police Department cruiser during the Sept. 30 traffic stop.

Police said the two Dayton officers were part of a narcotics investigation in the Dayton View neighborhood and saw the car leaving a suspected drug house. Due to that and the driver's "felony drug and weapon history," a K-9 team was summoned for a "free air sniff" that, under department policy, required occupants to leave the vehicle for their safety and that of the dog, police said.

Owensby said he could not get out because he is paraplegic, and he refused their assistance in doing so, police said. He then "grabbed onto the steering wheel ... (and) was then forcibly removed from the vehicle," police said.