Posted on 01/16/2015 6:08:45 AM PST by null and void
Full title: Connecticut cop who was caught on camera as he repeatedly stomped suspect is found NOT GUILTY of police brutality
A Connecticut police officer was found not guilty Wednesday of violating the civil rights of a man who video showed being stomped and kicked by three cops whod just tasered him into submission.
Clive Higgins was the only officer to plead not guilty in the 2011 incident in which drug dealer Orlando Lopez-Soto was seen in footage being brutalized as he lay face down in the grass following a car chase with police.
A jury said Wednesday that Higgins, whos seen in video arriving to the scene sometime after fellow cops Joseph Lawlor and Elson Morales before getting in his own licks, had not violated Lopez-Sotos civil rights.
Higgins, an officer in Bridgeport since 2002, had faced up to 10 years behind bars had he been convicted, NBC Connecticut reports.
A video showed police officers kicking and Lopez-Soto after he was shot with a stun gun in Beardsley Park in 2011 following a car chase.
Not surprising.
If that is the caliber of officer the good citizens wish to be in authority over them, I don’t have any problem with it. Sooner or later those boots will make contact with one of their hands, or their head, or ribs.
I remember the newspaper delivery pickup truck but I didn’t remember this skinny white guy being shot ... doesn’t look anything like Dorner (beefy black guy)... face it ,, they can do no wrong. /s
Perhaps the members of the jury didn't want to get pulled over for a burned out license plate lamp on the way home from the courthouse...
I first thought it was the two officers first shown, repeatedly abusing the perp in custody. It turns out the last guy that came up and threw in his one-shot kick (almost obligatorily) is the one that was on trial. The other first two had pleaded guilty.
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