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Article: Union official: El Monte officer's kick justified
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- Whittier Daily News
- Article date:
- May 15, 2009
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EL MONTE - An attorney representing the El Monte police officer
who kicked a prone suspect in the head after a high-speed pursuit
said Friday the tactic was justified under the department's use of
force policy.
Television cameras captured the incident in Pico Rivera on
Wednesday, sparking a sheriff's criminal investigation and an
internal affairs probe that could stretch for two or three months,
officials said.
"It's actually a tactic that they teach you in the police
academy," said Dieter Dammier, counsel to the El Monte Police
Officers' Association. "It's designed not to damage or injure
people, it's to distract them. That's why you see one kick. If the
officer really wanted to pummel ...