SEE IT: Army investigating video of soldier harassing Black man in South Carolina

U.S. Army officials said Wednesday they were investigating a video of an officer at its largest basic training facility harassing and shoving a Black man off-base in South Carolina.

In the video, the white non-commissioned officer yells at a man and tells him to leave a Columbia, S.C. neighborhood or face physical consequences.

In the video, a man who appears to be U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Jonathan Pentland, a drill instructor, asks the man what he is doing in the area.

“Let’s go, walk away,” he said. “I’m about to do something to you. You better start walking right now.”

“You’re in the wrong neighborhood,” the soldier says in the video. “I ain’t playing with you. ... I’m about to show you what I can do.”

The video does not show what precipitated the man’s interaction with the soldier. A woman in the video claims that the Black man started a fight with “some random young lady,” but the Black man denies the claim.

According to social media accounts, Sgt. Pentland has been stationed at Fort Jackson since 2019.

Fort Jackson Commanding Brig. Gen. Milford H. Beagle Jr. said both the Army and local authorities were investigating the video.

Beagle added that the behavior in the video was “by no means condoned by any service member.”

“We will get to the bottom of this ASAP,” he said.

According to the Richland County Sheriff’s Department, officers had been dispatched by the neighborhood days prior after an assault report was made regarding one of the men in the video.

Sheriff Leon Lott described the video as “very disturbing.”

With News Wire Services