Video Shows Cop Sucker-Punching Handcuffed Teenager. Judge Refuses to Look at the Evidence. [View all]

[AnotherMcIntosh]

From Jonathan Turley:

"It is often difficult to get actual charges against a police officer, but former St. Louis Officer Rory Bruce, 35, was an exception. After all, it was a police video that clearly showed him verbally abusing a teenager and then sucker punching him while handcuffed. One would think it would be an easy conviction, even without the testimony of the 16-year-old boy. That is if the judge watched the video. She did not. ..."
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"... Jeff Roorda with the St. Louis Police Officer’s Association insists that he can see the suspect moving in a threatening manner and Bruce defending himself: “It’s one forearm blow as he’s trained to do.” Bruce later on the video says “I told you I wanted to search you and you came out of the thing and started lunging at me.” ...

"The police fired Bruce on the basis of the video and the prosecutors brought charges. However, Burke declined to watch the video. ..."

http://jonathanturley.org/2013/07/08/st-louis-judge-refuses-to-watch-video-showing-officer-sucker-punching-teenager-and-then-acquits-him-police-union-call-for-his-rehiring/#more-66847

Now the police union is demanding that the department rehire Bruce.

The judicial protection of bad cops is one way that bad cops are made.