Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Update

Chattanooga, Tennessee Police Detective Kenneth Freeman, the off-duty bully cop who pushed a 71-year-old Wal-Mart greeter to the ground when the store worker tried to stop Freeman in order to see his sales receipt, as well as shoved a bystander through a glass door when he tried to intervene, received his official punishment from his department:

"Investigator Freeman has been suspended for 28 days without pay and must go through anger management. His conduct was found unbecoming an officer, improper procedure and excessive force."

But Freeman somehow gets to keep his job as a police officer even after being found to have committed such blatant misconduct, and remains uncharged with any crimes that were committed due to his thuggish behavior in the incident, actions which would undoubtedly have landed any non-cop behind bars on assault charges at the very least.

Heck, even the judge in the case, Kevin Wilson, who found that there was no probable cause to charge "Detective" Freeman with so much as getting the greeter's clothes dirty, went so far as to write an editorial in the local paper excoriating all of us "rush to judgment" types who didn't get to see all of the evidence to pipe down and keep moving along.

Well, here's the surveillance video from the store. You decide whose story to believe:



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