Illinois, police officer pleads guilty to violating the rights of federal officials
Grace Chung Becker, Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division, in collaboration with Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, and Robert D. Grant, Special Agent in Charge of the department of the FBI in Chicago, announced today that Michael Murphy, a sergeant of the Forest Park Police Department, pleaded guilty in Federal Court to violence against the excesses of man in a park Forest, Ill.
Murphy was created by a federal grand jury on August 6, 2003, for the color of law Offense of the judgement of a man in Forest Park Murphy acknowledged that during the obligation, he sprayed the victim in the face with pepper spray, without justification, and then always impressed by the General Staff with an extensible. The victim suffered several injuries including a broken wrist. Murphy also acknowledged falsifying his police report in an effort to use excessive violence.
The Civil Rights Division is committed to the rigorous implementation of each Federal Criminal Court statute of citizens’ rights, such as laws that prohibit the voluntary use of excessive violence or other acts of misconduct of officials of law enforcement. The department has a significant results during the prosecution of civil rights. During these last six years, the Department of Justice has convicted nearly 50 percent more control official accused of misconduct during the last six years.
This case was examined by agents of the Division of the Chicago Federal Bureau of Investigation. The event was followed by the Civil Rights Division Trial Attorney
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