Ex-Atlanta cop gets 5 years for beating Walmart customer over 'stolen' tomato [View all]
Source: Atlanta Journal
A former Atlanta police officer was sentenced to five years in prison Monday for beating a Walmart customer he wrongfully accused of stealing a tomato and trying to cover it up, Channel 2 Action News reported.
Trevor King, 49, of Stockbridge, was convicted in December on federal charges of unreasonable force and falsifying a police report. According to prosecutors, King was in uniform and working off-duty at the Walmart on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive when he saw Tyrone Carnegay weigh a tomato and walk toward the store’s exit.
King stopped the victim near the door and hit the victim with his baton seven times, breaking two bones in the victim’s right leg.
As Carnegay lay on the floor bleeding from his injuries, prosecutors said King searched him and found a receipt for the tomato in Carnegay’s bag.
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Cop's atty:“heartbreaking for Mr. King, for his family. He’s a father.” Really???
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