Salt Lake City cop charged after he ordered police dog to attack Black man

[Demovictory9]

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-salt-lake-city-cop-charged-20200916-uxnuznjynbbkjnjylali374biq-story.html



A Salt Lake City cop was charged with aggravated assault on Wednesday for ordering a police dog to attack a Black man lying on the ground during an April arrest, authorities said.

Officer Nickolas Pearce, 39, repeatedly encouraged the K-9 to blitz Jeffery Ryans while cops responded to a domestic violence call on April 24, according to charging documents filed by the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office.


Pearce was suspended from duty in August after the Salt Lake Tribune published a 97-second body-camera clip showing Ryans writhing in pain on the ground as the police dog attacked.


“Why are you doing this?” Ryans, 36, yells in the video. “Why are you biting me?”

Ryans screams out in pain repeatedly during the jarring video before he is handcuffed in the grass.

After the attack, Ryans was left with a pair of wide lacerations that required medical care, according to a four-page probable cause complaint filed by prosecutors.

[abqtommy]

1. Charge, prosecute and incarcerate these fascist police. Rinse and repeat...

[radius777]

2. That is despicable.

Policing is often not about 'law and order' but about 'white order'... why so many RW whites (many of whom follow no laws, such as Trump himself) 'love' the police so much.

[pansypoo53219]

3. NPR had a story yesterday on howmuch bad cops cost tax payers. BILLIONS. cause they have

immunity.

[Demovictory9]

4. Yep.