NOPD (New Orleans PD) fires 3 officers after body cam catches 1 hitting handcuffed man

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Source: nola.com

Three New Orleans police officers were fired Wednesday (June 15), and a fourth suspended, for their roles in a September 2015 incident in which a handcuffed man was hit several times while seated inside the department's French Quarter station.

Officer Alfred Moran's body-worn camera showed him using his hands to strike the man, who had been arrested for public intoxication shortly before midnight on Sept. 30, NOPD said. The man was sitting on a bench inside the 8th District station on Royal Street at the time, and had argued with Moran prior to the incident.

Three other officers – Lewis Simmons, Christopher Jennings and Jeffery Tyler –witnessed their colleague's use of force, NOPD said, but none of them reported the incident to supervisors, as required by department policy.

The incident came to light the following day during a supervisor's routine review of body-worn camera footage, said NOPD spokesman Tyler Gamble.



Read more: http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/06/nopd_fires_3_officers_after_bo.html

[Salviati]

1. Good.

If they keep this up, perhaps more people will start to trust cops.

[cstanleytech]

2. That and if the police forces in general were seen as being more picky over

who they hire and not give preferential treatment to hiring someone just because they were in the military because that does not automatically mean that they will make a good police officer.

[valerief]

3. "It's unacceptable to get caught!" nt