(09-30) 12:03 PDT DETROIT, (AP) -- A jury has cleared a Detroit police officer in a lawsuit alleging he wrongfully stuck his finger in the rectum of a drug suspect during a traffic stop.
The jury deliberated for about an hour Wednesday before clearing Sgt. Michael Osman and his partner, Officer Michael Parish, of wrongdoing.
Twenty-eight-year-old Terence Hopkins accused Osman of sticking his finger in Hopkins' rectum during a 2006 drug arrest while Parish stood by. Hopkins was seeking $1 million or more.
The city of Detroit has paid more than $700,000 in settlements to four men who made similar allegations against the officers. Those settlements were deemed inadmissible as evidence in the Hopkins lawsuit.
Poster Comment:
I can only imagine the envy of some of our retired resident 'pigs' on this forum that they can't get in on that kind of 'action' anymore...