Second Police Officer From Missouri Division Charged in Connection With Assault

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A second police officer from a suburban St. Louis division is now going through expenses after a person was allegedly pushed to a secluded spot and crushed till his jaw broke.

St. Louis County Prosecuting Lawyer Wesley Bell on Wednesday introduced that his workplace charged Northwoods, Missouri, Police Officer Michael Hill, 51, with second-degree kidnapping. Hill is jailed on $100,000 cash-only bond and does not but have a listed lawyer.

On Monday, Northwoods Officer Samuel Davis, 26, was charged with assault and kidnapping, stemming from an arrest on July 4. St. Louis County police mentioned Davis handcuffed a person, then turned off his personal physique digicam earlier than driving him to a secluded spot, the place the person was allegedly pepper-sprayed, crushed with a baton and instructed to not return to Northwoods.

A witness known as 911 after discovering the bloodied man. Police mentioned the sufferer’s jaw was damaged, amongst different critical accidents.

The possible trigger assertion in Hill’s arrest mentioned he was Davis’ supervising officer and was with Davis when the person was taken into custody at a Walgreens retailer. The assertion mentioned Hill instructed a retailer worker “what would occur to the sufferer.”

Like Davis, Hill by no means activated his physique digicam, by no means knowledgeable the dispatcher {that a} suspect was in custody, and did not write a report, the possible trigger assertion mentioned.

“There isn’t any excuse for this prison conduct, and my workplace will prosecute these officers to the fullest extent of the regulation,” Bell mentioned in an announcement.

Northwoods police Chief Dennis Shireff instructed the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that Davis has been suspended because the investigation performs out.

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