Homestead police officers fired in brutality cases and cover-up

This stuff is sickening--when is the public going to say enough! ?

Homestead police officers fired in brutality cases and cover-up--"Two police officers accused of assaulting men outside of Celio's Cuartel Latino bar in Homestead were fired along with another officer who allegedly covered up the incident, a police spokesman said Friday afternoon. The police brutality incident happened nearly three years ago. It involved three officers who were fired in February and suspended with pay in April 2011. They were arrested in July and have cases pending with the Miami-Dade state attorney's office. Sgt. Jeffrey Rome is accused of kicking a 69-year-old man in the head until he was unconscious and pepper-spraying an undocumented Guatemalan in the face from close range. While Officer Giovanni Soto allegedly beat up another man so badly with a nightstick that he disfigured his face. Meanwhile, Sgt. Lizanne Deegan is accused of failing to report the beatings. . . . "
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/09/3276417/three-homestead-police-officers.html#storylink=cpy

Tweet Follow @hogsatthetrough