Cpl. Michael Cordova was found not guilty of the third-degree misdemeanor. Cordova, who was hired in 2001, will be able to continue working in law enforcement.
John Heaney, who was riding his bike past Coors Field on the way to see his mother in a nearby hospice, claims the under officers taunted and challenged him. Not knowing they were cops, Heaney says he tipped off Cordova's hat. After that, the 58-year-old man claims the officers pulled him off his bike, kicked, punched and beat him.
When he was lying on his stomach about to be handcuffed, video shows Cordova pulling Heaney's head up with his ponytail, then slamming his face into the ground.
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=123710&catid=339
This is sick, once again the police acting out violently and suffering no consequences for their wrong doing.
The part of the story that is not mentioned in the article is why this undercover cop was at the opening game for the Rockies. Was he investigating some hard core criminal? No, he was trying to sting people buying and selling tickets from someone besides the box office. So he was acting violently while trying to bust non-violent “criminals”. What crime did Heaney commit to deserve such treatment? He rode his bike across the street against a red light.
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