Bad Cop : 2 hardworking cops are now felons
Willie Joyner crawled through the field on his elbows, dragging his right leg, useless and shattered at the hip.
“Just take me to jail,” Joyner said he had silently prayed as the kicks slammed into him. “At least I’ll get some medical attention.”
Today, Joyner needs a cane to support his 6-foot-4-inch, 250-pound frame on a right hip and leg held together with two metal plates and a dozen screws — the result, he says, of an April 2008 encounter with Detroit Police Officers Lashaud Welcome and Ruffus Stewart.
He has filed a lawsuit against the officers.
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“Just take me to jail,” Joyner said he had silently prayed as the kicks slammed into him. “At least I’ll get some medical attention.”
Today, Joyner needs a cane to support his 6-foot-4-inch, 250-pound frame on a right hip and leg held together with two metal plates and a dozen screws — the result, he says, of an April 2008 encounter with Detroit Police Officers Lashaud Welcome and Ruffus Stewart.
He has filed a lawsuit against the officers.
Quote from the article:
| In just five years on the street, Welcome and Stewart have been named in five major civil suits, as well as numerous citizen complaints, alleging everything from improper stops and searches to commandeering a woman’s pink and black Dodge Charger and crashing it. They were racking up impressive numbers of arrests and seizures, which gained them recognition and pleased their immediate supervisors. But the two officers, especially Welcome, also caught the attention of upper brass monitoring potential problems for the department. The officers represented the kinds of problems that worry the department as it tries to strengthen community bounds to help it break the stubborn cycle of violence plaguing the city of Detroit. Now felons, Welcome and Stewart are on three years of probation for official misconduct. Their lawyers John Goldpaugh and Donald Stolberg said they were simply hardworking cops trying to do the right thing. But Wayne County Circuit Judge Linda Parker said their actions in framing an innocent man, which led to their convictions, “affects anyone who cares about justice” and destroys community trust. And, she said, it throws a shadow of “did this really happen?” over police testimony. |
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