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UglyGreed

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Mon Nov 10, 2014, 07:29 PM Nov 2014

West Virginia homeless man loses only photos of dead wife when cop throws backpack in river [View all]

A West Virginia police officer reportedly was planning to resign after throwing a homeless man’s backpack into the Elk River in August.

According to a criminal complaint obtained by the The Charleston Gazette, Charleston Patrolman Brian Lightner confronted 26-year-old Andrew Joel Hunt on the Spring Street bridge on Aug. 18 over an argument that several homeless people were having while standing in the road.

Hunt admitted that he had been drinking. And when he refused to leave, Lightner arrested him.





After getting out of jail, Hunt complained that Lightner had tossed his backpack off the bridge, including a laptop with the only photos he owned of his dead wife.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/west-virginia-homeless-man-loses-only-photos-of-dead-wife-when-cop-throws-backpack-in-river/

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