A criminal investigation is now underway against an officer accused of shoving a resident to the ground.

It happened during a road rage incident and was captured on surveillance video.

The speed limit in the 800 block of West Banta is 35 miles per hour, but neighbors complain cars drive 60 and 70 miles per hour through this stretch of road–and high speed is what neighbors say led to a confrontation between a resident and a plainclothes officer.

The neighbors along Banta Road say they`ve complained about speeding traffic to the mayor`s office and IMPD without success.

“Tom was walking across the street,” neighbor Robert Turner said. “We seen a car approaching at a high rate of speed, the car laid on his horn as Tom was about halfway across the road and was pretty close to him when he went past.”

Tom Trickle is recovering from brain cancer surgery and says he was waiting for a refrigerator delivery about 8:30 a.m. Friday when a gray sedan sped by.

” I think he was doing every bit of over 50 miles per hour,” Trickle said. “I give him a hand gesture. I basically gave him the bird. 

The car turned around, came back, and the driver got out.

There`s a gap in the surveillance video that misses the shove and Trickle landing 10 feet away, but it does show what happened next.

Marked cars, uniformed officers, and supervisors arrived and Trickle went to the hospital to be checked out.

The officer is a long-time veteran of the department. He was in plain clothes at the time of the incident.

He’s now on administrative leave.

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