Officer acquitted of kicking a suspect in the head resigns

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Officer acquitted of kicking a suspect in the head resigns

Randall Chase, Associated Press

Updated 6:26 pm, Tuesday, February 23, 2016

DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Dover police officer who was acquitted of assault after kicking a suspect in the head has resigned.

City officials said Tuesday that Cpl. Thomas Webster IV's resignation is effective immediately, but his official date of separation will be June 30.

Officials described Webster's resignation as a "negotiated separation." They did not provide details.

Webster, who is white, was captured on police dashcam video kicking Lateef Dickerson, who is black, in the head in 2013. Dickerson, who was slow in responding to police commands to get on the ground, suffered a broken jaw. Webster told jurors he did not mean to kick Dickerson in the head, but was aiming for his upper body.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Officer-acquitted-of-kicking-a-suspect-in-the-6850177.php

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Cpl. Thomas Webster IV







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[monicaangela]

1. Aiming for his upper body?

What gives him the right to kick somebody who is already down. What has law enforcement come to? Where are they getting these recruits? Sad commentary for what they allow on the force these days.

[MoreGOPoop]

2. Hopefully his reputation will precede

him, lest he be hired by another precinct or in any capacity of authoritah.
I just do not get what makes some people so brutal.

[Dont call me Shirley]

3. Looks like a KKKop.

[surrealAmerican]

4. What kind of defense is that?

... didn't mean to break his jaw - only trying to break a few of his ribs?

... and he got away with this excuse.

[Jefferson23]

5. Acquitted, what a shock. They negotiated a separation? He can still be a cop somewhere else, right?

[awoke_in_2003]

7. Yep, just like pedophile priests

move them somewhere else.

[Jefferson23]

9. Yea, that just brought up vile images, but so true. :(

[gregcrawford]

6. There was ZERO justification for kicking him at all...

... and the thugs in blue have refined intimidation tactics to a high art, while still managing to skirt charges of jury tampering. This asshole was acquitted before the jurors even warmed their chairs, as is so often the case.

[47of74]

8. He looks like he never met a doughnut he didn't like.