New Orleans Police Taped While Hitting Man, Tv Producer; 3 Officers Are Suspended and Charged with Battery

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › October 10, 2005

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Two New Orleans police officers repeatedly punched a 64-year-old man accused of public intoxication, and another city officer assaulted an Associated Press Television News producer as a cameraman taped the confrontations.

After being questioned, the three officers were arrested late Sunday and charged with battery. They were also suspended, then released and ordered to appear in court at a later date, said Capt. Marlon Defillo.

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New Orleans Police Taped While Hitting Man, Tv Producer; 3 Officers Are Suspended and Charged with Battery

"We have great concern with what we saw this morning," Defillo said after he and about a dozen o...

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