Monday, August 17, 2009

Dolan to ask FBI to examine tape of arrest, fight (Star Tribune)

Dolan to ask FBI to examine tape of arrest, fight:

Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan said today he will ask the FBI to investigate an incident in which a squad car video captured police punching and kicking a man as they tried to arrest him in February after a stop for speeding...Jenkins was stopped by Minneapolis police at 3 a.m. Feb. 19 on Penn Avenue N. for allegedly going 15 miles per hour over the speed limit. He ended up at North Memorial Medical Center, his face bloodied and bruised. He required seven stitches above his eye after six officers punched and kicked him while he was face-down in a snowbank. He was treated at the hospital and then jailed for four days...

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