Here's a story about 'Officer Friendly.'
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national...-1.2428229
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national...-1.2428229
Quote:KING: How did it take a dozen suits involving racism, brutality for a Detroit cop to lose his badge?
Quote:In 2003, the LA Times ran a feature on Detroit cop Bill "Robocop" Melendez. Twelve years ago, he was already the subject of four lawsuits for racism and brutality, had cost the city more than $1 million in settlements and was at the center of an FBI investigation that resulted in one of the most sweeping consent decrees ever for a local police department.
Melendez, though, continued his career in law enforcement.
Quote:On Jan. 28 of this year, though, Bill Melendez was caught illegally choking and punching a retired black grandfather in the head 16 times. The victim, Floyd Dent, was a horrifically bloody mess and the dash cam video appeared to show Melendez planting cocaine on Dent. Every single charge against him was dropped and Melendez was arrested and charged with three felonies. From the beginning, Floyd Dent has believed that he was targeted and assaulted by white officers because he was a black man in a black neighborhood