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Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan is requiring all of the city's approximately 800 officers to watch a squad-car video from February in which six officers punch and kick a man who is face-down in a snowbank.
Every officer is to watch the video with a supervisor and discuss the appropriate use of force when a suspect is resisting passively or aggressively.
Dolan also has ordered that any video-recorded use-of-force incident resulting in medical treatment for an officer or a suspect now must be reviewed by an internal affairs investigator; previously, such recordings were view... Read more
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New York Times - United States
22 November 2008
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A police officer said on Saturday that he did nothing improper last month when he and other officers stopped and subdued a 24-year-old man in a Brooklyn subway station. The man has claimed that he was sodomized with a piece of police equipment during the confrontation.
“I did absolutely nothing wrong,” the officer, Richard Kern, 25, said in a statement released by his lawyer, John D. Patten.
Officer Kern and three other police officers stopped the man, Michael Mineo, in the Prospect Park station on Oct. 15. The police have said the officers thought Mr. Mineo was smoking marijuana, but they found no drugs and let him go, issuing him a summons for disorderly conduct.
A special grand jury is investigating Mr. Mineo’s claims that Officer Kern and three other police officers tackled him and beat him, and that one officer shoved a piece of equipment into his rectum. Mr. Mineo, a body piercer in a tattoo parlor, was hospitalized after the encounter.
One of the witnesses to appear before the grand jury was Kevin Maloney, a transit officer who was involved in the encounter.
One law enforcement official has said that Officer Maloney testified that he saw Officer Kern jab a retractable police baton between Mr. Mineo’s buttocks. Another person with knowledge of Officer Maloney’s account has characterized his testimony differently, saying he told grand jurors that Officer Kern had “pushed” or “placed” the baton against Mr. Mineo’s buttocks.
Mr. Patten said Officer Kern wanted to make clear that he “absolutely did nothing improper in this instance.”
And he said Officer Kern called a “complete lie” news reports that he may have used excessive force in a 2007 arrest.
Mr. Patten said Officer Kern had been cleared of wrongdoing by the Civilian Complaint Review Board, which investigates claims of police misconduct. The city settled lawsuits against Officer Kern related to that allegation, but said there was no indication of wrongdoing by the officer. A spokesman for the board, Phil Weitzman, declined to comment.
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