President Donald Trump tweeted in disbelief after disturbing videos surfaced appearing to show a black man beating white elderly patient...
President Donald Trump tweeted in disbelief after disturbing videos surfaced appearing to show a black man beating white elderly patients to a pulp at a Michigan nursing home.
Shocking video footage emerged on social media Thursday showing the young man at the Westwood Nursing Center in Detroit, whom authorities say was a patient of the same facility, repeatedly punching elderly victims as they lay defenseless in their beds.
'Is this even possible to believe? Can this be for real? Where is this nursing home, how is the victim doing?' the president tweeted later that same evening.
Detroit Police confirmed they arrested a 20-year-old man allegedly in the footage.
'Can this be for real?' Trump asks in his tweet reacting to the shocking videos. Detroit Police confirmed they have arrested a man who allegedly appears in the footage
The suspect was not identified, Fox News reports.
In one video, which seems to have been filmed by the abuser, the man calmly faces the camera.
He then appears to lay multiple punches on the face of an elderly man lying face down on the bed.
The victim tries in vain to shield his head from the rain of punches before he tries to get up.
The abuser then grabs him by the neck and pulls him off the bed.
He then turns the camera round to show the injuries he has caused to his victim, with blood seen streaming down the old man's face.
The aggressor is then heard saying: 'This b**ch-a** n**r wouldn't get off my bed.'
A separate horrific video was also posted on social media appearing to show the same man abusing another elderly victim.
In the footage the suspect holds his fist in front of the camera and then launches the attack on the elderly victim who is lying in bed.
Detroit Police Department confirmed Thursday afternoon they had arrested someone over the incident which they said took place at a 'senior home'.
'Thank you to everyone for your assistance in bringing the senior home incident to our attention,' the police department said in a tweet.
In one video, which seems to have been filmed by the abuser, the man calmly faces the camera and then appears to lay multiple punches on the face of an elderly man lying face down on the bed.
'The Detroit Police Department is investigating the situation, and an arrest has been made. Thank you again.'
DailyMail.com has reached out to the Detroit Police Department for comment.
Comments on social media initially said the incident took place at a psychiatric hospital but both the hospital and the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services have denied this.
'A social media post was saying that this occurred at one our department's state psychiatric hospitals, but that was incorrect,' Michigan Department of Health & Human Services told DailyMail.com over email.
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