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Travis Griffith, Chief of San Angelo Police, said the officer had been suspended Monday after the investigation of the Interior concluded that he had been using too much force before the 18-year-old woman.
During the press conference, Griffith raised questions about training a video showing a woman kicking the officer who then knocked on her while she was restrained.
“I’ll be honest with you,” the chief said Monday. “You should not train the officers not to kill an 18-year-old girl in the face and knock her out while she is handcuffed, a ripp suspension and tangled in a seat belt.”
He added that Texas Rangers did not find a reason to review the officer Jason Gann.
For several months, the Professional Standards Service of the San Angel Police Department conducted an internal investigation into the use of the incident, Griffith said.
On Wednesday, June 26, Travis Griffith swore a police chief at a city council meeting.
Internal investigation found that Gann had used too much force against a woman in late June, after arresting her during a domestic violence investigation, Griffith said. The woman who weighed £ 100 was intoxicated and non -cooperating. It was properly covered with handcuffs and seats with legs restrained in a patrol vehicle.
The answer in peaceful and positive ways is to prevent aggressive kicks.
Before leaving the scene of the incident, officials tried to adjust the woman’s leg constraints, and she threw Gann at the right club, the chief said.
Gann then grabbed his legs, leaned over the vehicle and struck her in the head, briefly knocking out unconscious, said Griffith. Perhaps the suffering from the concussion, it was taken to a local hospital, heal and cleaned.
Within a few hours of maintenance, the department staff found that the event was related to Griffith. Gann was granted the status of an alternative duty by restricting it by administrative work.
Griffith stated that the woman’s face was blurred in the video, in his request for respect for her.
He added that the department had no external complaint of the incident, although she was offered the opportunity to do so.
The boss stated that he had had several cases of officers in trouble since he took office 15 months ago.
San Angelo Police Department officers.
“Most of these cases have nothing to do with training and just responsibility for their actions and know better,” Griffith said.
He added that the department provided more training at the steering wheel at its time than in the past.
May The city honored Ganna for five years, according to a Facebook post on the city page.
Griffith argued that the suspension of Ganno’s indefinitely means that he is no longer working in the department, but he will be given the right process and may like it.
The boss stated that the Gann Peace Officer’s Certificate was not influenced and would be able to look for a job elsewhere.
“I will tell you that this does not make an officer Gann some terrible person,” said Griffith.
San Angelo Police Chief Travis Griffith March 19 Is holding a press conference on suspicions arising from events at Lake View High School.
Gann responded to the situation as a man, but the whole situation required his indefinite suspension, Griffith said.
“Given the number of existing levels of constraints, the size of the official and the subject, the degree of force used, the lack of accountability of the officer Gann and the lack of response to retraining was stopped indefinitely from the San Angel Police Department,” said Griffith.
The boss said he was praying for a suspended officer and was pleased that the 18-year-old woman did not suffer more serious injuries.
“It is much easier to delay this material and deal with it” But if we are responsible, then you have to leave and do this material. “
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This article initially appeared in San Angelo Standard-Time: Police said the use of force prompted the suspension of the San Angel Officer