3 officers resign after forcing teen to eat marijuana
 

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Three Phoenix police officers have resigned after a man alleged they forced him to eat marijuana found in his vehicle to avoid going to jail, Chief Joseph Yahner said Thursday.

A fourth officer, Jeff Farrior, was demoted from lieutenant to sergeant for being aware of last week's incident and not taking appropriate action, Yahner told reporters.

"Their actions are appalling and unacceptable. This conduct is against everything that we stand for," Yahner said.

Police identified the three officers who quit as Richard G. Pina, Jason E. McFadden and Michael J. Carnicle.

Two of them are being investigated both criminally and by the department, Yahner said, adding that the third officer is considered a witness to the act and is the subject of just the administrative investigation.

Yahner said all of the officers' video cameras were turned off and did not record the incident in which a 19-year-old Phoenix man was stopped for a traffic violation around 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 13. The man, whose name was not released by police, was issued a citation and had his car towed.

He later told a patrol supervisor that the officers demanded he eat the marijuana, estimated to be about a gram, or go to jail.

The man reported feeling ill after ingesting the marijuana of an unknown potency, but didn't need any medical attention, a police spokesman said.

Yahner called the allegations about the officers' actions "disturbing and upsetting."

The three officers who resigned were with the Phoenix Police Dept. for less than one year. However, one of the men was an officer in Chicago for 10 years, CBS affiliate KPHO reported.

"I was going to fire them. They chose to resign," Yahner said.

Yahner declined to discuss details of the criminal and internal investigations.

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what an asshole..he just ruined everyones chance to get out of going to jail for that now
whaaa i had to eat marijuana...what the fuck

Evil popo should be the main theme in Donkster's threads :1orglaugh
Be outraged and add that they are racists. Well it would not work in this case since onse seems to be non evil whitey, but keep it in mind for the next time.

It sems that police brutaliti never stops ;(

now this kid has a lawyer and will be getting a lot of money. :thumbsup:thumbsup

richard pina...if he had shot a black man, would he be racist, like that racist black cop, brently vinson, in charlotte?

:1orglaugh

we all know how to read Reddit. Why re-post it here?

Joshua Dynamo, if he started using 'your' and 'you're' correctly would he suddenly be intelligent?

This is some fucked up shit.

Perhaps... But that might not be a good kid.

Years ago we had a neighbor who had gotten hurt at their grand parents house and they sued and got him a huge pay day. The kid went from working riding his skateboard to his crappy job at a local fast food place to riding in a $100k BMW. It was comical. Because he had so much money and was 18, he could do whatever he wanted. He would get so fucked up and unable to park when he got home that his nice expensive car ended up on someone's front lawn every other night. He had so many accidents that eventually no one would insure him.

What an asshole for reporting it, it was a gram.. I hope he gets charged with possession now..

I've been given my weed back by cops, after arresting me so that I pay them overdue fines.. But no one flipped out.
Other cops have told me to do something about the smell before someone reports it, another told me that they will pretend that a baggie in my seat is a sandwich then told me that being nice gets you things like that, etc.