Originally diaried by Horace Boothroyd III (I want a name like that), the Youtube video of a Bridgeport, CT police officer kicking and stomping a suspect was viewed by thousands.
Well, guess what?
Another cop has his job back.
The good news is that vinyl records are having a resurgence, and now many of our youth will know what 'a broken record' connotes.
For much of Wednesday morning the eight-man, four-woman panel heard Assistant U.S. Attorney Anastasia King and then Assistant U.S. Public Defender Paul Thomas sum up their cases.
Both urged the jury to take a close look at the video that Timothy Fennell made of the May 20, 2011 incident that shows then-Police Officers Elson Morales and Joseph Lawlor kicking a prone Orlando Lopez-Soto. It then shows Higgins arriving in a cruiser, approaching the suspect and then landing another kick.
“Is this kick more likely intended to end up as some street level judgement for leading the cops on a chase?” King asked the jury. “Look at the evidence of the action, the expression.”
Thomas maintained that Higgins was concerned Lopez-Soto, an admitted gun-wielding, crack-dealer, was armed and trying to get up.”