When a Seattle cop kicked the legs out from under a woman, fracturing her cheekbone as she fell face-first onto the pavement, the captain in charge of internal investigations recommended discipline.It sounds like a "retraining intervention" would indeed be called for here. Perhaps an evening class in proper use of force...
But the department rejected the investigator's recommendation, calling for "supervisory intervention," a kind of retraining that is not considered disciplinary action by the department.
The "intervention" that the officer received included an admonition to keep using force when necessary on the street.
Six months after the woman was hurt, witnesses said the same cop kicked a suspect in the face as the man was trying to surrender. And once again, he was given retraining.
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