Sgt. Arrests Video-Taker; IA Probe Begins
Found on New Haven Independent on Tuesday, 12 June 2012
The police chief Monday ordered an internal investigation opened into a sergeant who allegedly had a woman arrested and a cell phone camera snatched from her bra after she recorded him beating a handcuffed suspect.
“They were roughhousing him. Stepping on his face. Kneeing in his back,” said Gondola’s friend, Tamara Harris, who was alongside her and taking still photos. Sgt. Rubino was doing the bulk of the beating, Harris said, “stepping on the guy’s head, doing all this extra stuff when he was already handcuffed.”
Rubino next ordered a female officer to pat her down and commanded, “I want that phone out of her bra.” The woman removed the phone. Rubino “put it in his pocket,” Gondola said.
Looks like this cop needs a new job since he obviously doesn't even know the most basic laws. No wonder that the police in the US has such a bad reputation when all you read is how officers mace, taser and beat up innocent citizens.