Cop Block – by Kelly W. Patterson
On June 4, 2014, Dominic Gennarino was beaten by members of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and arrested for “Obstructing a Public Officer”, specifically because the officers claimed that Mr. Gennarino was not moving fast enough.
The incident was caught on video.
On August 5, 2014, LVMPD Internal Affairs conducted an investigation and concluded that “the investigation failed to produce sufficient evidence to clearly prove or disprove the allegations”. Internal Affairs further concluded that “the actions taken by employees did not rise to the level of misconduct or was not a policy violation”.
On August 20, 2014, multiple media sources reported on the beating. As a direct result of the media coverage, LVMPD Sheriff Doug Gillespie ordered that Internal Affairs re-open the investigation.
On December 15, 2014, after Internal Affairs concluded their 2nd investigation, Attorney Stephen Stubbs and Dominic Gennarino met face-to-face with LVMPD Internal Affairs Officers and were informed of the following:
1) Prior public statements by an LVMPD Officer that Mr. Gennarino was “super-intoxicated” were completely false. There is absolutely zero evidence that Mr. Gennarino was intoxicated in any way, and no allegation of intoxication was included in any of the official reports. Additionally, LVMPD Internal Affairs listened to a recorded interview with Mr. Gennarino from immediately after the incident and concluded that Mr. Gennarino spoke clearly with no signs of intoxication.
2) There was a communication failure during the incident, and the officers should have communicated better.
3) Officers acted on erroneous perceptions and “mistakes of fact”.
4) Officers acted within then LVMPD policies and will not be disciplined. However, documentation of the incident is being placed in their personnel files.
5) LVMPD recognizes a “policy failure” and is not happy with this incident. Therefore, as a direct result of this case, LVMPD will implement “fundamental policy changes” in both its use-of-force policies and policies dealing with the investigation of use-of-force incidents.
For more information, contact Stephen Stubbs at (702) 759-3224
http://www.copblock.org/100602/las-vegas-policy-change-dominic-gennarino-beating/
The American police are rather demanding of the citizen. Now if the citizen could just demand something in return from them.
Every dog has his day, Mr. Bergen
If there are any “fundamental policy changes” they will happen because police are afraid to leave their pig-sty, and not for any other reason.
And they wonder why people are shooting at them.
I.Q. thing.
Now they want “hate crime” protection! So if the beating was wrong, where’s the charges?