Posted on 05/21/2015 5:45:54 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
The U.S. Attorney's office said Griffin was involved in an incident May 29, 2010. That night, he was outside of Aqua Nightclub and Lounge on First Avenue. He was off-duty and in plain clothes.
Griffin's friend began to argue with a third person. Griffin displayed his badge and identified himself as a police officer. The man tried to walk to Envy Nightclub about a half of a block away.
Griffin followed and punched him in the face, knocking him unconscious, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
Griffin then approached two on-duty Minneapolis police officers nearby, identified himself as an officer and directed them to arrest the man.
Griffin later wrote a police report falsely indicating the man tried to attack Griffin and that Griffin only punched the man after attempting to sweep his legs out from under him.
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Their experiment with the current Chief Of Police is going badly.
The real story is at the bottom of the article. After 22 complaints over the years and 40% of the settlements last year being on account of this one clown, it is apparently taking action by a federal prosecutor to stop this kind of behavior.
Congratulations local criminal justice system. I guess we can see the emphasis is on their own criminal behavior not justice.
Just one more racist cop.
Some animals are more equal than others.
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