Cop fired for beating handcuffed man gets job back, back pay

[green73]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKxNoRDZRV8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKxNoRDZRV8


Owasso, OK — Owasso police officer, Mike Denton, was fired after body cam and surveillance footage showed him stomping on a handcuffed man’s head and then repeatedly elbowing him in the face.

Denton and two other Owasso police officers responded to a call on June 30, 2011 about an intoxicated man creating a disturbance at an apartment complex.

The officers arrested Bryan Spradlin for public intoxication.

The arrest was caught on all of the officer’s lapel cams and paints a clear picture of excessive force, to which the city responded to by firing Denton.

However, the Fraternal Order of Police, who apparently agreed that Denton was simply “protecting himself” by stomping on a man’s head, nearly breaking both of his arms, and elbowing him, filed a grievance which was heard by federal mediator Edward Valverde in March of 2012.

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http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-fired-beating-non-violent-handcuffed-man-video-job-pay/

[aGameOfThrones]

Eric frein is the bad guy.

[moostraks]

Summary being:
This rehiring of Denton goes to illustrate the level of impunity that police officers nationwide enjoy. This officer beat a man, who was restrained, was caught on video doing it, and was fired by his superiors for an obvious violation of the law and this man’s civil rights. But it meant nothing in the long run.


So we can pay for all the nifty extra cameras and surveillance but they will still walk, we are left poorer, and more than likely will have the same technology supposedly put in place to police the police turned into a prison of our own making and used to prosecute the mundanes more aggressively.

[phill4paul]

Summary being:

So we can pay for all the nifty extra cameras and surveillance but they will still walk, we are left poorer, and more than likely will have the same technology supposedly put in place to police the police turned into a prison of our own making and used to prosecute the mundanes more aggressively.

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