Police Get A Tap On The Wrist For Beating A Manchester Man

July 9, 2010 by toby
Filed under: News, Police, Thuggery, Update

On March 3, 2010, Chris Micklovich was asked to leave a bar in Manchester because he had too much to drink. Once outside the bar, Chris was met by four off-duty police officers. The officers proceeded to cause 26 facial fractures to Chris’s face before arresting him, although they claim they did nothing wrong.

After an internal review, the officers were found to have “violated standard operating procedures,” although their actions were “were not criminal.”

If it takes four officers to beat a drunk guy half to death in order to take him into custody, the officers are either acting criminally, or they are so incompetent at their jobs that they should never be given a badge again.

Instead of going to jail, as anyone else who did this would, the officers are being suspended without pay for an undisclosed period of time.

What is particularly disturbing about this case is the fact that four officers participated in this. Michael Buckley, Jonathan Duchesne, Matt Jajuga and Lt. Ernie Goodno either participated in this act of aggression, or stood by and watched it happen. All but one of these officers, Goodno who recently retired, will be back on the beat in no time, “protecting us.” I know I feel safe.

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6 Comments on Police Get A Tap On The Wrist For Beating A Manchester Man

Keith on Fri, 9th Jul 2010 5:36 pm

This is the worst part of the story,
“There is still criminal action pending against Micklovich, and Micklovich’s attorney has filed a civil lawsuit against the city.”

I don’t know what the guy did but it likely wasn’t as bad as what the officers did. Surely there is also criminal action against all of them and they all hired personal lawyers to defend them, oh wait…

This sounds like a story for http://www.copblock.org

Josh on Fri, 9th Jul 2010 6:12 pm

“Off-Duty” means not uniformed. Is it really a far stretch to picture four cops, minus the costumes, instigating this guy enough so they would feel justified in using their training? After all, uniformed cops rarely meet much resistance.

Bradley Jardis on Sat, 10th Jul 2010 5:26 pm

Toby,

The MPD unions are kicking, screaming, and attacking the county attorney for launching an independent investigation.

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?articleId=a4112c9e-83f7-497e-93c8-0a0b25e16c5f&headline=Pressure+from+Manchester+police+unions+won%27t+halt+Strange+Brew+probe+says+county+attorney

Since you did this blog covering it, maybe you’d do a new one about this article?

bil on Mon, 12th Jul 2010 2:56 am

Just made the connection! In the Forum,there is a post in the intro section about /from a guy that is going through some shit with the bedford police.There is a link to the newspaper article,and comments below.One of the comments was that why don’t they just invite the guy to Strange Brew and have four cops beat the crap out of him in the back! I wondered what that meant,until I noticed the pub name here.I guess this story is well know over there.I have seen several cases where some cops were out for a night on the town,trouble started and they did a beatdown,suddenly they were not guys out drinking,but off-duty officers protecting the public from some troublemaker.One time the troublemaker had just beat a cop at a game of pool and was laughing about it.That was the trouble!Watch your back! —bil

Bradley Jardis on Mon, 12th Jul 2010 12:40 pm

All charges dropped against this abused man.

http://www.unionleader.com/pda-article.aspx?articleId=9bb7c241-1424-4190-95c7-9d43e443559b&headline=Criminal+charges+dropped+against+Micklovich+in+Strange+Brew+incident

You know, the charges which authorized the violence used against him in the first place?

Bradley Jardis on Mon, 12th Jul 2010 12:45 pm

The county attorney won’t back down notwithstanding the unions kicking and screaming about an outside investigation:

http://www.unionleader.com/pda-article.aspx?articleId=a4112c9e-83f7-497e-93c8-0a0b25e16c5f

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