The
Omaha Police Department
said it fired six officers after an incident of police
brutality caught on tape went viral. Those cops may be starting to
make their way back onto the force.
From KMTV Action 3 News in Omaha:
Omaha police officer Bradley D. Canterbury has been
reinstated after being fired for a rough arrest at 33rd and Seward
last Spring.Action 3 News first broadcast exclusive cell phone video of a rough
arrest. It shows a police officer pulling Octavius Johnson to the
ground and punching him several times. It also shows several
officers running into the Johnson home without a search warrant to
confiscate video another Johnson brother was recording.
Investigators believe officers destroyed that video. What police
didn’t know, a neighbor was recording the whole thing.
According to the
TV report, an arbitrator decided in a 38-page ruling that
Canterbury’s use of force was justified, calling the strikes
“hammer hits” and noting he didn’t kick or elbow Johnson. The
arbitrator also decided the city didn’t have enough evidence to
show Canterbury purposely failed to mention the second series of
strikes, against an already subdued Johnson, in his report, even as
two of the officers are facing charges related to the cover-up of
the incident.
Video below, with the second, unreported strikes, coming in at
about 2:55, after all the other cops have already run into
Johnson’s brother’s house to take whatever he filmed of the
incident:
h/t Raven Nation
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