Officer who held Duanna Johnson down testifies

Updated after the jump with contact information for the newspaper.

It's been almost two years since that disturbing video of one cop holding down while another cop beat a black trans woman, sending her to the hospital, was released. Both cops were fired and Duanna Johnson was later found dead in an unrelated murder.

As you may recall, the officer who beat Johnson filed an assault charge against her even after he used the handcuffs as brass knuckles, had his buddy hold her down, and pepper sprayed her:



McRae filed an assault charge against Johnson. In his report, McRae said Johnson swung at him and threatened to shoot the officer in the head. He said he was punched repeatedly in the head and neck by Johnson, whose first name is listed as Dwayne in the report.



Well, former officer Swain testified both that the "beat down" was one-sided (as the video showed) and that he had initially lied about it to protect his cop buddy. This is exactly why police shouldn't be policed only through internal investigations, a lesson other people who are the victims of police violence learned too late.
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