Steven Pohorence of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department faces a misdemeanor battery charge for the incident.
Poherence was monitoring a May 31 rally with other officers when he was filmed pushing the woman to the ground as she knelt with her hands in the air. Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Rick Maglione, at a press conference in June, said Pohorence had entered the crowd of demonstrators to rescue a fellow officer who had become surrounded and felt endangered. The woman who was pushed to the ground did not suffer any injuries, he said.
Maglione, in a statement Tuesday, said Poherence has been placed on unpaid administrative leave amid an internal investigation into whether any departmental policies were violated.that he will plead not guilty to the charge. “The video is just a small snippet of all of the challenging circumstances and hostilities that an officer may have been encountering and dealing with at the time,” Dutko said, adding that a call for police backup made minutes before the video was taken was “frightening.”RELATED...
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