An Officer Seen as a Hero Faces a Year Behind Bars

[retdetsgt]

Either way, my hat is off to this man for taking the thing head on. I'm not sure I would have that kind of courage and dignity if I was in his shoes.

Thanks for the kind words and I agree, he's a real standup guy.

A guy on my dept, in fact he was in my academy used to have blackouts when he got really angry. I never worked in the same car with him, but several friends of mine did over the years. They told me stories of him getting extremely mad, throwing some guy around and then not remember doing it. Interestingly enough, he was a real mild manner guy. In fact, he coached a Little League team to the Little League World Series Championship a few years ago after he retired. But anyway, maybe this Sgt is like that. That would be scary to me, to do things I didn't recall.

[ngcsubutterbar]

guys remember it said he was on audio and video. That's how they know what happened.

[troysig]

Anyone know whether he was sentence to county or state prison? If he goes to county that would help his time there alot.

[Valor55]

It sounds to me like they did the guy a favor putting him away for a year. The feds were going to pick up a civil rights case against him if he was found not guilty. He would have done a lot more time in a federal pen if that was the case.

[retdetsgt]

It sounds to me like they did the guy a favor putting him away for a year. The feds were going to pick up a civil rights case against him if he was found not guilty. He would have done a lot more time in a federal pen if that was the case.

Yep, doing a cop does nothing for a local DA, but it can for a federal prosecutor.