Memphis police have released the names of the four officers suspended with pay after a video showing them turning over a portable toilet with a suspect inside went viral.
The officers are: Taylor Ackerman, Manuel Saldana, Roosevelt Shaw Jr. and Timothy Taylor.
The officers were seen in the video turning over the toilet with the suspect identified as Joseph Hampton, 31, of Memphis inside, then turning it upright again. When Hampton tumbled out of the toilet, one of the officers kicked him in the behind.
This occurred on Sept. 19. Hampton was arrested and charged with aggravated criminal trespass and evading arrest.
According to his arrest affidavit, police were called to an apartment at 1655 Randolph Place about a complaint of the suspect, Hampton living in an apartment illegally with a retired Vietnam veteran who suffers from memory loss.
The affidavit states that the elderly man?s nephew told police that he did not want Hampton in his uncle?s apartment because the suspect allegedly sold drugs from the apartment and brought women there for sex.
As police approached the apartment to find Hampton, he ran out the front door. Police found him hiding in a portable toilet inside a fenced construction site, according to the affidavit.
The affidavit states that officers arrested Hampton and took him to jail. There was no mention in the affidavit about the officers tipping over the portable toilet with Hampton inside. Police said Hampton has been arrested twice for trespassing at the apartment complex.
Hampton was released on a $250 bond and is due in court on the trespassing and evading arrest charges on Dec. 1.
According to court records, Hampton also was arrested in the past on charges including driving with a suspended license, domestic assault and aggravated burglary.
All the officers were suspended with pay after the video was released by someone online.
For officer Saldana this is the second incident recently where he has been relieved of duty with pay.
In April 2013, Saldana, 49, was relieved of duty after he shot and killed a motorist, Daniel Brock, on Sycamore View.
According to police, Brock?s death came after he followed a man from the AutoZone at Summer and Waring, then got out of his car, beat and spit on the man?s window and threatened to kill him.
Police found Brock on Sycamore View after he crashed his car. Officers said Brock charged them, refusing to show his hands. Saldana fired a single shot, killing him. Brock had a lengthy and violent criminal record stretching back to 1983.
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