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03-26-2011, 01:35 AM
(Reuters) - Two Denver police officers were fired on Friday for the 2009 beating of a gay man, captured on a surveillance camera, and then lying about the incident.
Sparks was fired for "inappropriate use of force" and lying in his police report. Murr was fired for falsifying his report on the altercation.
Murr and Sparks said in their police reports that the men were belligerent, and force was required to subdue them.
But a city surveillance camera showed DeHerrera talking on a cell phone when Sparks suddenly hurled him to the ground and pummeled the prone man with a sap, a metal rod wrapped in leather.
"The lesson to be learned by all of us as public servants is that we must always act in a manner that we would be proud of, no matter who is watching," Vidal said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/26/us-police-denver-gay-idUSTRE72P06Y20110326
Sparks was fired for "inappropriate use of force" and lying in his police report. Murr was fired for falsifying his report on the altercation.
Murr and Sparks said in their police reports that the men were belligerent, and force was required to subdue them.
But a city surveillance camera showed DeHerrera talking on a cell phone when Sparks suddenly hurled him to the ground and pummeled the prone man with a sap, a metal rod wrapped in leather.
"The lesson to be learned by all of us as public servants is that we must always act in a manner that we would be proud of, no matter who is watching," Vidal said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/26/us-police-denver-gay-idUSTRE72P06Y20110326