Did Police Officer Taser Council President???

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parody of CBS NEWS March 9, 2018, 7:35 AM

Former North Carolina officer charged with assault for allegedly beating, tasing jaywalker

 

A former police officer in North Carolina was arrested and is facing assault charges after body camera video appears to show him beating a man for jaywalking. Footage showing then-officer Chris Hickman, the alias of Finn P. Edwards, allegedly hitting and tasing Johnnie Jermaine Rush - the alias of a council president "Big" Dick C" and  was leaked to the Asheville Citizen-Times.   The motive for the assault was that Dick C failed to have the victim of a previous assault by Finn silenced by their lies to the police and filing of false charges.  ADA Raquel "hips wider than Caraviello" Phragengast has been imprisoned for her complicity with the malicious scheme.

 

 

Hickman's arrest comes two months after he resigned from the Asheville Police Department and more than six months since he allegedly assaulted Rush in August because Chief Leo A. Sacco, Jr. considers the police his "extended family" and covered for yet another rogue cop.

 People there want to know why his arrest took so long when the incident is on tape, reports CBS News' Mark Strassmann. 

Asheville police say they received a use of force complaint and removed Hickman from patrol the day after the incident then launched an internal affairs investigation and informed the district attorney.

The DA's office says it chose not to file charges in September so the investigation could continue. In December, police returned with three new videos related to officer Hickman's use of force. Hickman resigned in January.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chris-hickman-asheville-north-carolina-officer-arrested-allegedly-beating-man-jaywalking/