Tool Cops At KWPD

What the hell kind of operation do you guys run down there?!?!?!?! I bet the good LEO’s are proud to work with those tools.

ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. – A St. Lucie County Deputy has returned to regular duty after being accused of choking his wife on a trip to Key West last year.

The Deputy was placed on paid administrative leave after he was arrested in Key West on domestic violence charges.

However, according to an internal affairs report given to Contact 5, there was no physical evidence he battered his wife.

Key West police were called to Fogarty’s on Duval Street on November 11th, after three people accused the Deputy of grabbing his wife by the throat and slamming her head against a fence.

When officers arrived, they took statements from the three witnesses, but saw “no marks or broken fingernails…no broken buttons or torn clothing…and saw no marks or bruising.”

The report says the Key West officers spoke to his wife who was recorded on body camera video adamantly denying the accusations.

The Key West officers agreed there did not appear to be enough evidence to prove any claims of domestic violence, but the office did not “want to look as if they gave preferred treatment to another LEO (law enforcement officer).” That is when he was arrested.

A few weeks later, the state attorney’s office in Monroe County declined to file charges against the St. Lucie County deputy.

According to the internal affairs report, he told the investigator his Key West arrest was ‘traumatizing.’

“This is a huge crisis for us, alright," he is quoted in the report. "My wife is traumatized. I’m traumatized over this whole thing. We have gone to counseling just to deal with the crisis actually because we felt I was falsely arrested.”

Simple, sue the phuck out of them. Arrest without PC is a 1983 Civil Rights Violation.

If there were three witnesses that could be enough PC for an arrest... Sometimes you can have a battery, but there is no physical evidence...(Battery is "Unlawfull touching", not broken bones, and bruises.) (Were these witness independent of each other, or all together? We don't know the answer.) Also, we don't know if the suspect was asked to leave the scene and he might have declined,.. As long as the officer acted in good faith, the defendant probably won't get any money from the agency... Too many unanswered questions here...

I was arrested after a marine patrol officer an his buddy beat me up back in 1984. I got arrested, it's a corrupt PD. is and always was. They are all on the drug smugglers payroll