Jury Convicts Former Atlanta Police Sergeant for Using Excessive Force-Break Walmart Customers Leg

[nitpicker]

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/jury-convicts-former-atlanta-police-sergeant-using-excessive-force-break-walmart-customer-s

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Friday, December 8, 2017

Jury Convicts Former Atlanta Police Sergeant for Using Excessive Force to Break Walmart Customer’s Leg

A federal jury has convicted former Atlanta Police Department Sergeant Trevor King, of Stockbridge, Georgia, of using unreasonable force when he arrested a Walmart shopper who the officer wrongfully suspected of shoplifting a tomato. King beat the victim with his police-issue baton, breaking two bones in the victim’s leg. The jury also convicted King of writing a false incident report in an attempt to cover up his wrongdoing.
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According to U.S. Attorney Pak, the charges and other evidence presented during the trial, Former Sergeant King was working off-duty as a security officer at a Walmart store near downtown Atlanta when he observed a shopper weigh a tomato and walk toward the store’s exit. King stopped the victim near the door and, within seconds, began to strike the victim with an ASP baton. King struck the victim seven times, breaking two bones in the victim’s right leg.

As the victim lay on the Walmart floor bleeding from his injuries, King searched the victim and found a receipt for the tomato in the victim’s bag. The receipt showed that the victim paid for the tomato only minutes before King’s attack. King then wrote a false report to cover up his unjustified assault. Additionally, King charged the victim with obstructing a shoplifting investigation and with assaulting a police officer.

Following emergency surgery at Grady Hospital, the victim was transported to the Fulton County Jail to be held on King’s bogus charges. The victim’s criminal charges were ultimately dismissed by a state prosecutor.

[get the red out]

1. My God!

That is pure RAGE!

[Egnever]

2. Wow

I love the assaulting a police officer crap. They tackle you to the ground but you assaulted them.

geezus

We really need to pay cops more. We are having to scrape way low to get people, and when we get them they have to work Walmart on the side to make ends meet.

Not really surprising a lot of these guys snap.

[Le Gaucher]

6. Pay more?? Its a fucking joke here in jersey

They retire here at the 47 or 48 (30 years of service) if they joined right after high school.

Since their pension is tied to last couple years of pay .. They game it by racking over time.. So it is uncommon to see cops with 120 in pension at age 48..

Most of them get into a business like landscaping or something... They have very comfortable lives.


They dont lack money..they lack humility.

[bagelsforbreakfast]

3. Over a TOMATO???? 😣😰😰😣😰😯😰

[trusty elf]

4. You wishy-washy liberal! Right is right and wrong is wrong!

Thou shallt not steal tomatoes!

[bagelsforbreakfast]

5. I guess they say To Maah To in Walmarts! 😊

[Stuart G]

7. k and r..nt

[Rustynaerduwell]

8. If you're a cop you can't just break someone's leg and get away with it-

You have to kill the guy to get away with it.

[kacekwl]

9. That's where he made his mistake.

You can't take evidence and make up a story if the VICTIM is alive.

[Phentex]

10. I saw the video and I just don't understand...

it's bad enough to be singled out and asked to show a receipt but what happened to that approach first? Can I see your receipt? Dig through pocket, find it and hand it over.

Obviously they had words first. But at what point is it okay to start beating the person WHO IS NOT ATTACKING YOU first?

And then there's the whole cover up behind it. Just a dirty cop all the way around.