Anti Federalist
09-07-2011, 09:19 PM
They're still charging the driver with trying to "flee from police".
Video Of Police Shooting Prompts Dismissal Of Charges
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/29019754/detail.html
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Prosecutors have dropped attempted murder charges against a man who was shot in November by Orlando police officers who claimed he tried to ram them with his van.
The decision came after the Florida Department of Law Enforcement obtained surveillance video that appears to show an Orlando police pickup truck pushing the van into other officers' vehicles.
A passenger in the pickup was OPD Sgt. Rhonda Huckelbery, who suspected that men in the van stole her husband's credit cards the day before and used them to buy nearly $1,000 in electronics.
Orlando police told Local 6 that there is no policy preventing officers from investigating crimes in which their husbands or other relatives are victims.
OPD is conducting an internal investigation of an undisclosed number of the dozen officers involved in the takedown in the Target parking lot on East Colonial Drive on the Sunday before Thanksgiving 2010. The department would not comment.
At the time, OPD said the van's driver, Rogelio Cortes, tried to ram the van into its officers.
But the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, asked by OPD to investigate potentially fatal police shootings, found evidence that was "inconsistent" with some of the officers' sworn statements.
The FDLE forwarded its findings to the Orange-Osceola State Attorney's Office, which dropped charges of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer and other serious felonies that could have led to life sentences. Prosecutors have decided to take no action against the officers.
Cortes, shot in the abdomen and arm, remains charged with attempting to flee or elude police.
Video Of Police Shooting Prompts Dismissal Of Charges
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/29019754/detail.html
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Prosecutors have dropped attempted murder charges against a man who was shot in November by Orlando police officers who claimed he tried to ram them with his van.
The decision came after the Florida Department of Law Enforcement obtained surveillance video that appears to show an Orlando police pickup truck pushing the van into other officers' vehicles.
A passenger in the pickup was OPD Sgt. Rhonda Huckelbery, who suspected that men in the van stole her husband's credit cards the day before and used them to buy nearly $1,000 in electronics.
Orlando police told Local 6 that there is no policy preventing officers from investigating crimes in which their husbands or other relatives are victims.
OPD is conducting an internal investigation of an undisclosed number of the dozen officers involved in the takedown in the Target parking lot on East Colonial Drive on the Sunday before Thanksgiving 2010. The department would not comment.
At the time, OPD said the van's driver, Rogelio Cortes, tried to ram the van into its officers.
But the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, asked by OPD to investigate potentially fatal police shootings, found evidence that was "inconsistent" with some of the officers' sworn statements.
The FDLE forwarded its findings to the Orange-Osceola State Attorney's Office, which dropped charges of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer and other serious felonies that could have led to life sentences. Prosecutors have decided to take no action against the officers.
Cortes, shot in the abdomen and arm, remains charged with attempting to flee or elude police.