Update on Denver Cell Phone Beating
A former Secret Service agent who oversees Denver’s police, fire and sheriff’s departments submitted his resignation Monday amid community anger over police officers caught on video hitting a man during a violent arrest.
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An independent police monitor publicly clashed with Perea over the decision to suspend rather than fire the officers.
Monitor Richard Rosenthal said in a report last week that he believes the police video of the incident clearly shows one officer doctored his account to keep the second officer from getting in trouble.
This is exactly why we need scrutinizing public review boards rather than internal police investigations for looking in to police misconduct. The case has been reopened, and may be persued by the FBI, and the government official in charge of dealing with police misconduct has stepped down due to public anger over what is clearly a cover-up.
2010-08-24 :: madlibertarianguy