phill4paul
04-05-2012, 08:27 AM
Forget the two weeks paid vacation. The 'in' thing now is to take several years of paid vacation.
http://www.westword.com/2012-01-19/news/alex-landau-officer-reinstated/
Ricky Nixon, Denver cop involved in several brutality cases, is reinstated
Three years ago this past Sunday, Denver police officers pulled over Alex Landau, then nineteen, for allegedly making an illegal left turn onto Emerson Street — and then, wielding flashlights and radios as weapons, they beat him bloody
http://media.westword.com/alex-landau-officer-reinstated.7569010.40.jpg
Although Landau received one of the city's largest police-brutality settlements — $795,000 — this past May, his story remains a chilling example of racial profiling. And now that story is starting a new chapter, since Officer Ricky Nixon, who was involved in the incident and later fired from the Denver Police Department in connection with a fracas at the Denver Diner, was just ordered reinstated to the force by three hearing officers with the Denver Civil Service Commission....
On the night of January 15, 2009, Nixon was driving the police car that stopped Landau, a Community College of Denver student who is African-American but had been adopted by a white couple with police officers in their family. The fight allegedly started when Landau asked Nixon if he had a warrant to search his trunk and Nixon responded by punching him in the face; two other officers who'd pulled up to the scene reportedly joined in. Landau was eventually treated for a broken nose, lacerations and closed-head injuries — but not before he demanded that someone take photos of his injuries. Those pictures helped convince the city to settle the federal lawsuit that Landau's attorney had filed....
And it get's worse...
Last spring, Garcia had also fired both Randy Murr, one of the officers involved in the Landau incident, and Devin Sparks in connection with the videotaped beating of Michael DeHerrera in LoDo in 2009; this past fall, hearing officers recommended that these officers, too, be reinstated.
In examining Ricky Nixon there seems to be a pattern of abuse...
http://www.9news.com/rss/story.aspx?storyid=242144
DENVER - Another round of reaction came Saturday after two fired Denver Police officers were reinstated to the force.
Officers Kevin Devine and Ricky Nixon, accused of excessive force and lying on reports, received full reinstatement and back-pay after a decision by the Civil Service Commission.
The two officers were seen on video in July 2009 at the Denver Diner near Speer Boulevard and Colfax Avenue wrestling handcuffed women to the ground and spraying them in the face with pepper spray....
The city fired Devine and Nixon, who were accused of lying on their reports about the incident by making it appear they were defending themselves....
"I'm upset. I'm very hurt," Ana Ortega told 9Wants to Know.
Ortega says she was one of the women who was pepper sprayed.
"Reinstating these officers... it makes people think twice about calling 911," Ortega said. "I don't trust the Denver Police Department.
Nor do I. The 'hearings officers' march in lockstep to get every officer in these events re-instated.
So the lesson here is. Why go for a two week paid vacation when you can take a couple years off and get a big fat lump sum.
Seems 'Tricky' Ricky Nixon knows how to play the game.
http://www.westword.com/2012-01-19/news/alex-landau-officer-reinstated/
Ricky Nixon, Denver cop involved in several brutality cases, is reinstated
Three years ago this past Sunday, Denver police officers pulled over Alex Landau, then nineteen, for allegedly making an illegal left turn onto Emerson Street — and then, wielding flashlights and radios as weapons, they beat him bloody
http://media.westword.com/alex-landau-officer-reinstated.7569010.40.jpg
Although Landau received one of the city's largest police-brutality settlements — $795,000 — this past May, his story remains a chilling example of racial profiling. And now that story is starting a new chapter, since Officer Ricky Nixon, who was involved in the incident and later fired from the Denver Police Department in connection with a fracas at the Denver Diner, was just ordered reinstated to the force by three hearing officers with the Denver Civil Service Commission....
On the night of January 15, 2009, Nixon was driving the police car that stopped Landau, a Community College of Denver student who is African-American but had been adopted by a white couple with police officers in their family. The fight allegedly started when Landau asked Nixon if he had a warrant to search his trunk and Nixon responded by punching him in the face; two other officers who'd pulled up to the scene reportedly joined in. Landau was eventually treated for a broken nose, lacerations and closed-head injuries — but not before he demanded that someone take photos of his injuries. Those pictures helped convince the city to settle the federal lawsuit that Landau's attorney had filed....
And it get's worse...
Last spring, Garcia had also fired both Randy Murr, one of the officers involved in the Landau incident, and Devin Sparks in connection with the videotaped beating of Michael DeHerrera in LoDo in 2009; this past fall, hearing officers recommended that these officers, too, be reinstated.
In examining Ricky Nixon there seems to be a pattern of abuse...
http://www.9news.com/rss/story.aspx?storyid=242144
DENVER - Another round of reaction came Saturday after two fired Denver Police officers were reinstated to the force.
Officers Kevin Devine and Ricky Nixon, accused of excessive force and lying on reports, received full reinstatement and back-pay after a decision by the Civil Service Commission.
The two officers were seen on video in July 2009 at the Denver Diner near Speer Boulevard and Colfax Avenue wrestling handcuffed women to the ground and spraying them in the face with pepper spray....
The city fired Devine and Nixon, who were accused of lying on their reports about the incident by making it appear they were defending themselves....
"I'm upset. I'm very hurt," Ana Ortega told 9Wants to Know.
Ortega says she was one of the women who was pepper sprayed.
"Reinstating these officers... it makes people think twice about calling 911," Ortega said. "I don't trust the Denver Police Department.
Nor do I. The 'hearings officers' march in lockstep to get every officer in these events re-instated.
So the lesson here is. Why go for a two week paid vacation when you can take a couple years off and get a big fat lump sum.
Seems 'Tricky' Ricky Nixon knows how to play the game.