The Boise Community Ombudsman found that a Boise Police Officer (identified as “Officer #3") engaged in conduct unbecoming an officer when he Tasered a handcuffed suspect in the buttocks, leaving two circular burn marks, and then asked if the suspect could feel the officer’s “Taser up his ass.” Officer #3 then threatened to use the Taser on the suspect’s genitals: “Now, do you feel this in your balls? . . . . Now., I’m going to tase your balls if you move again.”Another officer (Officer #10) was found to have acted improperly when he erased the audio recording of a jail interview of the suspect. The Officer told investigators that he did not record the interview because another officer was recording it and that he erased his tape because it been left on accidentally and had hours of "dead air." Forensic analysis of the tape showed that the officer actually recorded the entire interview.
Unsurprisingly, the Ada County Prosecutor found no reason to charge Officer #3 with battery or Officer #10 with destruction of evidence.
For the Idaho Statesman article, "Boise ombudsman says police officer used excessive force in an arrest this year," click here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/235/story/841919.html?storylink=omni_popular
The Ombudsman Report can be downloaded here: http://www.boiseombudsman.org/InvestigativeReports/2009InvReports/09_0014PublicReport.pdf
Someone out there knows the identity of Officers #3 and #10. Give it up.
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