Article from Reason by Joe Setyon.
Kicking a juvenile Latino teenager in the head. Spitting on him. Telling him: “Welcome to the white man’s world.” Threatening to plant a “kilo of coke” in another Latino teen’s pocket.
Those are just a few of the more horrifying allegations made against a Massachusetts cop in a federal indictment unsealed yesterday. The accusations stem from a February 2016 incident in which two Springfield police officers allegedly used excessive force after several Latino teens allegedly stole an unmarked police car.
It all started with a pizza run, according to a civil lawsuit filed in August by one of the teens. On the night of February 26, then-Officer Stephen Vigneault drove his unmarked car to pick up some pizza for former narcotics detective Gregg Bigda. The lawsuit says Bigda had been drinking rum, and Vigneault was hoping to sober him up.
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The federal indictment, filed on October 25, names both Bigda and Vigneault as defendants. While arresting one of the juveniles, identified as E.P., Bigda “willfully deprived” him of his right “to be free from unreasonable seizures, which includes the right to be free from the use of unreasonable force by a law enforcement officer,” the indictment says. The result was “bodily injury” sustained by E.P. The indictment says Vigneault acted in a similar manner while arresting another juvenile, identified as D.R.
Read the entire article at Reason.
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Put them in jail. No one is above the law, well maybe Hillary
just where was the police brutality these kids are crimminal’s lock them up for a very long time better deport them somewhere let them get caught stilling in another country and see how they like it
Outrageous Police Brutality Caught On Tape
Hey Joe Setyon,
Are you the 1 that’s screaming police brutality??
I watched the whole video, and I was seriously expecting
this young man to beaten & seriously blooded and have to be rushed the Hospital
I didn’t see any of that, I didn’t even see a slap
from a police officer to any part of this young man’s body
I see and hear some loud cussing and screaming of a little intimidation
by the police, but that’s all, and believe this young man hears that probably a lot everyday
where he screaming and cusses or by other kids his age doing it
I didn’t see NO police brutality, as I know police brutality, and I know police brutality
because I’ve had police brutality used in me, and his young man, didn’t experience that at all
SO again fake lyin news medias reporting strikes again
this is the TRUMPing Truth!!!
Exactly, Hal! Where was ANY physical contact?
Please take me off your email lists. Do not send me any more.
JAIL
NO BOND
STACK THE CHARGES
TO MANY GOOD COPS THAT THEY SOILED THE NAMES OF