National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Recap 05-02-14

Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, May 2, 2014:

• St. Petersburg, Florida: An officer [Officer Brian Fernandez] was fired from the department for using excessive force and breaking city and department rules. He shot a teenaged boy [Quade Everett]. ow.ly/wqwUn
• Update: Spokane County, Washington (First reported 03-27-14): A sheriff’s deputy [Deputy Todd Saunders ] was fired for misconduct after an investigation showed he spent much of his on-duty time at the home of a woman who was not his wife. ow.ly/wqpCQ
• Brazoria County, Texas: A man [Joe McKenzie] is suing a county, its sheriff [Sheriff Charles Wagner], and two deputy sheriffs [ex Deputy David Green, Deputy Howard Leatherwood] on allegations they violated his Fourth Amendment rights, unlawfully arrested him and used excessive force. ow.ly/wqpmA
• Phoenix, Arizona: An Arizona police officer [Officer Timothy Reed Merrill] was arrested on multiple charges in Nashville. He was charged with assault, vandalism and public intoxication. ow.ly/wqp1m
• Beaumont, California: A jury has been for the trial of a now-former officer [Officer Enoch Clark] accused of firing a pepper spray gun so close to a woman’s [Monique Hernandez] face that it permanently blinded her. ow.ly/wqqrI

• Jones County, Texas: A sheriff’s deputy [Deputy Stephanie Renee Fenner] has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after she allegedly fired multiple shots at a truck that had her love interest inside. ow.ly/wqosr
• Oakland, California: The father [Matthew Raynor] of a 16-year-old boy [Frenswa Raynor] who was shot in the face by a police officer [Officer Bryan Clifford] who mistook him for a robbery suspect has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city. ow.ly/wpHN0
• Update: Country Club Hills, Illinois (First reported 06-18-13): The police chief [Police Chief Regina Evans] was sentenced to five years in prison for stealing more than $900,000 in state grant money. ow.ly/wpF7D
• Grangeville, Idaho: A couple has filed a lawsuit in federal court after a former sheriff’s deputy [Deputy Daniel L. Funderburg] pleaded guilty to engaging in lewd and lascivious contact with their then 16-year-old daughter (also named in suit: Chief Deputy Jim Georges, Sheriff Doug Giddings]. ow.ly/wpDVb
• Clearwater, Florida: Three Two police officers [Sergeant David Young, Sergeant Sean Allaster] face suspension after an incident involving what appears to have been a drunken colleague [Officer Nicholas Capogna] getting a special treatment. Internal Affairs investigators found a fellow officer was allowed to go home without so much as a field sobriety test even though he appeared to be drunk. ow.ly/wpnKx

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