Jury finds Pomona police used excessive force against LAPD officer

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http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pomona-arrest-20140124,0,2376619.story

Jury finds Pomona police used excessive force against LAPD officer
By Joel Rubin
January 24, 2014, 4:26 p.m.

The verdict reached Wednesday evening was a final step in Sergio Arreola's nearly two-year push to clear his name after the 2012 encounter that resulted in his being fired from the LAPD and facing a possible prison sentence.

Arreola took the stand to challenge the officers’ allegations, saying Hamilton had been the aggressive one, cursing and yelling at him. He denied ever resisting the officers, saying Tucker had intentionally pulled him off balance as he was being frisked and, when Arreola stumbled, the officer used it as an excuse to take him to the ground.

In an audio recording of the encounter captured by a recorder Hamilton carried, the officer is heard telling Arreola repeatedly to “stop resisting” and Arreola saying that he is not resisting. Arreola is also heard pleading with onlookers to record the scene.

Once on the ground, Arreola said, the officers punched him repeatedly. Hamilton, he said, bent his left arm back violently and Tucker attempted to subdue him by using a choke hold.

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1. I guess it takes pig on pig violence to get justice.

Oink.