After a Brooklyn jury found three police officers not guilty of abusing Michael Mineo, both sides of the case followed a familiar script.
A jury in Brooklyn found Officer Richard Kern not guilty of assaulting Michael Mineo. Two other officers had been accused of covering up the abuse.
A jury in Brooklyn found Officer Richard Kern not guilty of assaulting Michael Mineo, above on Friday. Two other officers had been accused of helping cover up the abuse.
A new proposal to give an independent agency the power to prosecute cases of police misconduct sounds much like one from nine years ago, which came to nothing.
The Civilian Complaint Review Board will have the power to charge and prosecute officers deemed to have committed misconduct.
Before the jury got the case, a prosecutor demonstrated in court how quickly an attack on Michael Mineo could have occurred.
A police officer is accused of using his baton to brutalize a man, and two officers are charged with hushing it up.
A police officer is accused of using his baton to brutalize a man, and two officers are charged with hushing it up.