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Suspects accuse police of tort
More complaints were made against armed offenders squad officers than members from any other section of Victoria police, a public hearing into assault claims against nine officers has heard.
Hartog Berkeley, QC, is presiding over an inquiry by the Office of Police Integrity into the Armed Offenders Squad, which was disbanded earlier this month.
Counsel assisting an inquiry into the squad, Garry Livermore, said there had been significantly more complaints against the armed offenders squad than against any other section of the force.
Mr Livermore said the hearing... Read more
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
28 August 2009
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Minneapolis police told to wat
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 viewed at the discretion of an investigator.
The actions are the latest steps taken by the chief in response to the incident, which started after Derryl Jenkins was stopped for allegedly speeding at 3 a.m. in north Minneapolis.
"I'm doing these things without passing judgment on the officers involved," Dolan said in an interview Wednesday. Jenkins and his lawyer, Paul Edlund, released a video two weeks ago in which the 43-year-old Brooklyn Center man is seen exiting his car, then getting into a tussle with officer Richard Walker, who then called for backup. While Walker was on top of Jenkins, six other officers arrived and punched and kicked Jenkins. They also used a Taser on him three times.
Dolan has sent the video to the FBI for investigation, saying he has concerns about the kicking. Edlund said he and his client met with an FBI agent earlier this week.
After the incident, Jenkins ended up in the hospital with a bruised, swollen and bloodied face. He was charged with felony assault and refusal to consent to a blood-alcohol test. Both charges were eventually dropped by a prosecutor and a judge. Walker's supervisor and the watch commander, who has the rank of lieutenant, reviewed the video and said the force used was reasonable.
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