All Charges Dropped Against Man Who Was Beat Up By Manchester Police

July 12, 2010 by toby
Filed under: News, Police, Thuggery, Update

All Charges have been dropped against Christopher Micklovich who was arrested after being beat up by four off-duty Manchester police officers. Micklovich was charged with criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, simple assault and resisting arrest.

As previously reported, three of the officers were suspended after an internal review found that they violated standard operating procedures. Jonathan Duchesne, Michael Buckley and Matt Jajuga were all suspended without pay for an undisclosed period of time. The fourth officers, Lt. Ernie Goodno faces no penalties as he retired from the force shortly after the incident.

Although an internal review found the officers did not act in a criminal manner, the Hillsborough County Attorney, Robert Walsh, has decided to review the matter himself. This has enraged two different police unions, who insist the public should be left in the dark as to what actually happened outside the Strange Brew Tavern on March 3, 2010.

Micklovich claims that he was held down and beaten by the four officers before being taken into custody, and the 26 facial fractures he suffered during the incident show that either the police are incapable of taking a drunk man into custody without severely injuring him, or the off-duty officers acted criminally. Either way, these officers should be off the force forever. Instead, they are simply being suspended, without any details of the internal investigation or the actual duration of the suspensions being disclosed to the public.

It is more than troubling that the police unions want to cover this up. Why would they want bad officers on the force? Any officer worth their salt would want corrupt and bad police officers off the beat, yet the unions don’t even want the district attorney to investigate the incident. If the officers did nothing wrong, why attempt to block the investigation?

Micklovich is planning on suing the city for damages, for good reason. Unfortunately, the officers who should be facing both criminal and civil charges are being protected from any real consequences. Instead, the public will have to pick up the tab of the lawsuit. Meanwhile, the three officers who should likely be wearing prison uniforms, will continue to terrorize the public and hide behind the badge.

Comments

5 Comments on All Charges Dropped Against Man Who Was Beat Up By Manchester Police

Bradley Jardis on Mon, 12th Jul 2010 7:01 pm

Well said Toby.

I’d like to point out that the legal justification for the officers using such brutal force (as “allowed” by RSA 627:5) was the arrest of this man on these charges……….. which have been dropped.

That seems to speak very loudly… to me, at least.

ie: the legal reason the officer’s could use force on this man was for the crimes that they now are conceding they cannot prove he committed in the first place.

kevin on Mon, 12th Jul 2010 9:04 pm

Can we expect a civil rights lawsuit against the city?

Judge Burkah on Tue, 13th Jul 2010 4:37 pm

I see this all the time in my courtroom. Cops “file” “charges” that they know can’t, and won’t, be prosecuted. Later, the “charges” are dropped. I put those quote marks around “file”, and “charges”, to show that EVERYBODY in the system knows, KNOWS, these abuses are SOP for NH “law enforcement”.(SOP = Standard Operating Procedure). That’s the NH Republican Party legacy. These kinds of systemic abuses are inevitible when we have the “Police Prosecutor”. Remember, when you’re in “court” facing criminal charges, the State WILL NOT BE represented by an attorney. OH!? Is that what the General Court *INTENDED*???…guess so, guess so…What say *YOU*, “Winky”???…mpb, dude, mpb…

Mit Ailbu on Wed, 14th Jul 2010 8:17 pm

The residents of Keene should shut that city down until ALL the officers are fired and jailed.

Tom on Fri, 16th Jul 2010 5:46 pm

Mit thanks for your concern but this didnt happen in Keene. I have seen this and worse in other places over the same thing. The guy in the photo grabbed the other guy (who happened to be an off duty cop) grabbed his girlfriends ass in the bar.

I have seen my own buddies beat the snot out of a guy over the same damn thing, so how is this related??? they happened to be off duty cops, no different than my buddy who is a plumber…. giving a little local justice.

If it was your wife or girlfriend, unless you didnt care about her, you would probably sqaure off with the guy unless your hip mounted gun scared him off.

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