Justice for Brad

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Disgusting how a man is tackled to the ground as he was barely telling his side of the story. Does CIT training only apply to certain privileged people based on race & political affiliation? Compassion & sensitivity went out the window with that one.

I hope to see the sgt that tackled Brad investigated and the city sued.

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Disgusting how a man is tackled to the ground as he was barely telling his side of the story. Does CIT training only apply to certain privileged people based on race & political affiliation? Compassion & sensitivity went out the window with that one.

I hope to see the sgt that tackled Brad investigated and the city sued.

With all due respect.. shut the **** up

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With all due respect.. shut the **** up

I hope you lose your job and get charged for battery you coward. I bet you wouldn't tackle a actual combative subject. You would be 10 ft away stumbling to taser the guy.

You're not tough just because you tackled a gentle man.

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Disgusting how a man is tackled to the ground as he was barely telling his side of the story. Does CIT training only apply to certain privileged people based on race & political affiliation? Compassion & sensitivity went out the window with that one.

I hope to see the sgt that tackled Brad investigated and the city sued.

Matthew Moceri (1552) has a history of assaultive behavior to persons he arrest.

"coupled with the subject being substantially larger than I am." Matthew Moceri (1552) everyone is taller than you.

Google "Kenneth Post flpd" arrest image which clearly shows a boot heel imprint on Post's forehead, Mr Post was obviously secured in handcuffs as the assault was being perpetrated on him by the arresting officers.


3 Fort Lauderdale Police Officers Charged With Falsifying Police Report, Testimony

The officers crashed with a burglary suspect trying to flee in Nov. 2009, authorities said

By Edward B. Colby • Published May 31, 2012 • Updated on May 31, 2012 at 5:17 pm

The Fort Lauderdale Police Department said Thursday that three of its officers have been charged with falsifying a police report and subsequent sworn testimony connected to a 2009 police accident with and arrest of a Hilton hotel burglary suspect.

Thirteen-year FLPD veteran Sgt. Michael Florenco and 6-year veteran Detective Matthew Moceri have both been charged with four counts of official misconduct, one count of perjury in an official proceeding and one count of conspiracy to commit official misconduct – all felonies – as well as four counts of falsifying records, a misdemeanor, the police department said.

Officer Geoffrey Shaffer, who has been with the department five years, has been charged with four counts of official misconduct, one count of conspiracy to commit official misconduct and four counts of falsifying records, Fort Lauderdale Police said.


The FBI Broward County Public Corruption Task Force, which investigated the case along with Fort Lauderdale Police and the Broward County State Attorney’s Office, said in its arrest warrants that the officers responded to a reported burglary at the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Marina during the early-morning hours of Nov. 22, 2009.

When suspect Kenneth Post attempted to get away, the officers chased him, and at some point during the pursuit Post’s vehicle and the unmarked police vehicle driven by Sgt. Florenco crashed. Detective Moceri and Officer Shaffer, who were in Sgt. Florenco’s vehicle, helped him arrest Post, police said.

They charged Post with two counts of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, burglary, aggravated fleeing and eluding, resisting arrest with violence, aggravated assault and felony vandalism, police said. However, the public corruption task force’s investigation found that physical evidence contradicted the reports, probable cause affidavits and sworn testimony the officers provided, police said.


The three officers voluntarily surrendered at the Broward County Main Jail Thursday after they were notified that arrest warrants had been issued for them, Fort Lauderdale Police said.

“If these allegations are true, then these three officers do not represent all of the honest hardworking police officers that work at the Fort Lauderdale Police Department,” Police Chief Franklin Adderley said in a statement. “We will continue to hold our employees accountable and maintain the public’s trust and safety.”

Police said that Sgt. Florenco, 34, and Detective Moceri, 29, were already on paid administrative leave since April 18, 2011 because of an unrelated investigation, while Officer Shaffer, 31, was on paid administrative leave since March 9 of this year because of the Post corruption investigation, police said.

Now that they have been criminally charged, the officers will be put on unpaid administrative leave pending the outcome of the criminal proceedings, police said, and the police department’s office of internal affairs will also do an administrative review.

The Broward State Attorney’s Office said that charges related to Post’s alleged burglary are still pending, while anything relating to his charges involving the crash have been dropped.

The pending charges against Post, 49, are two counts of burglary and one count each of burglary with assault or battery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, possession of burglary tools and third-degree grand theft, according to online Broward court records.

Post’s trial is due to start July 2, and his lead attorney is public defender Kelly Ann Murdock.

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Disgusting how a man is tackled to the ground as he was barely telling his side of the story. Does CIT training only apply to certain privileged people based on race & political affiliation? Compassion & sensitivity went out the window with that one.

I hope to see the sgt that tackled Brad investigated and the city sued.

Continued attempt to violate an individuals Constitutional Rights by FLPD.

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2...-face-charges/

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This is disgusting

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This is disgusting

Has Matthew Moceri ever been sent for psychological evaluation after these assaults on Fort Lauderdale residents?


https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/cr...815-story.html

Troubled Fort Lauderdale officer who broke veteran's hip cleared in civil lawsuit

By BY PAULA MCMAHON and SUN SENTINEL
AUG 15, 2012 AT 8:08 PM

The late Dock Williams sued suspended Fort Lauderdale police officer Matthew Moceri for allegedly using excessive force during an incident in July 2009 when Williams was 82. Williams was a veteran of World War II and was disabled by injuries he suffered in the Korean War. Williams died in December 2011 in an unrelated accident.
The late Dock Williams sued suspended Fort Lauderdale police officer Matthew Moceri for allegedly using excessive force during an incident in July 2009 when Williams was 82. Williams was a veteran of World War II and was disabled by injuries he suffered in the Korean War. Williams died in December 2011 in an unrelated accident. (Sun Sentinel)
The 82-year-old disabled veteran of two wars filed a civil lawsuit accusing a troubled Fort Lauderdale police officer of illegally arresting him and using excessive force – "slamming" him to the ground, shattering his hip and forcing him to use a wheelchair for the last 2 1/2 years of his life.

The officer, Matthew Moceri, testified that he acted reasonably and that Dock Williams' injury was a regrettable accident, brought on by him interfering in a police matter.


Williams had challenged Moceri for stopping two young black men, including his grandson, and ordering them to lie on the ground outside Williams' home in a crimeridden part of northwest Fort Lauderdale in July 2009.

But Williams' didn't get to tell his side of what happened during the July 2009 incident — he died in December, age 84, after being struck by a car while crossing the street in his wheelchair.


On Wednesday, a jury took about 20 minutes to side with the officer in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, rejecting all the allegations against him.

Moceri, 29, looked relieved when he heard the verdicts, although he is still facing even bigger legal worries.


Moceri, a former member of the so-called "Raiders" or Street Crimes Unit, is suspended without pay from his detective job pending the outcome of state criminal charges of perjury, official misconduct and falsifying records in an unrelated case in an upscale neighborhood on the other side of town. Moceri denies the allegations and has pleaded not guilty.

The eight jurors in the civil lawsuit were not told about Moceri's other legal troubles because a judge ruled the criminal allegations – involving a November 2009 police chase, crash and alleged beating of a white suspect in Rio Vista – were not relevant to the civil case.

Williams' lawyer Gregory Durden, who filed the civil lawsuit, said he thought that part of the difficulty of proving his case was that Williams' death obviously meant he wasn't available to testify in court.

"You need a live person in court for the jury to connect with and he just was not there," Durden said.

Williams' granddaughter Tamira Williams, who took over the lawsuit as the representative of his estate, said she was disappointed by the verdict.

"It will happen again," she said of Moceri's alleged misconduct.

Moceri declined to comment.

Moceri testified in court that he had used the lowest level of physical force that was reasonable in the circumstances to stop Dock Williams from obstructing his investigation. Moceri testified that he had placed Williams -- a veteran of World War II who was left disabled by injuries sustained in the Korean War -- on his stomach on the ground.

The officer also told the jurors that the 82-year-old had not complained of pain at the scene. Williams had to get a hip replacement, use a motorized wheelchair, and needed full-time care after the incident, according to medical and court records. He became reclusive and moved out of his home because he came to fear the police, his lawyer said.

Other witnesses testified that Williams, who was so unstable on his feet that he used a cane attached to his wrist with a strap and was frail because of a laundry list of ailments including asthma, had voiced his disapproval about how the officers were acting. They said he was hobbling over to the officers but was knocked to the ground before he got near them.

Jurors declined to comment on their verdict as they left the courthouse.

Durden said he understood why the other allegations against Moceri could not legally be used in the civil case but added: "I hope the jury in the criminal case is not as kind to him as this jury was."

In the unrelated criminal case, Moceri is one of three police officers accused of chasing a burglary suspect from the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Marina hotel on Southeasth 17th Street to a residential street in Rio Vista, where they crashed. The officers filed police reports stating that the suspect tried to run down two of them and that he rammed their undercover vehicle, which state prosecutors said was contradicted by the physical evidence.

Moceri has been suspended from his job since April 2011. His pay was stopped after he was arrested in May of this year. Police officials said Wednesday that an internal affairs investigation will go forward after the criminal case is over.

In the civil lawsuit, Williams' lawyer had asked to jury to award damages of more than $425,000 and to find Moceri liable, though the city would have had to cover the costs.

Williams, a Fort Lauderdale resident for 52 years, had worked alongside civil rights pioneers Eula Johnson and Von D. Mizell to desegregate the police department.

Williams' lawsuit said that Fort Lauderdale officers had targeted teens outside his home on three occasions in a single day in July 2009 and that he demanded to know why Moceri and another officer ordered Williams' 19-year-old grandson and another young man to the ground.


Williams refused orders to go back to his apartment and said he was entitled to ask questions about how officers were behaving in his neighborhood. Moceri told him he was interfering with an investigation, threw him down and arrested him, Williams told the Sun Sentinel in an interview last year a month before he died.

Prosecutors charged Williams with misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest and assault, but later dismissed the case. They said they found no evidence that he resisted arrest and said his age and the fact that he used a cane made a conviction unlikely.

The officers said they had received an anonymous tip that two young men were selling drugs but none were found and no drugs charges were ever filed.

Williams' grandson, Darryl Bryan, was arrested on a misdemeanor count of resisting without violence but Broward County Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren acquitted Bryan of the charge. In dismissing the case, she said she found it shocking that the officer brought Williams to the ground.

"How you get an elderly man with a cane to the point where you have EMS coming is really imagery that I can barely fathom," the judge said, according to a court transcript. "I just can't fathom it."

pmcmahon@tribune.com, 954-356-4533 or Twitter @SentinelPaula

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Has Matthew Moceri ever been sent for psychological evaluation after these assaults on Fort Lauderdale residents?


https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/cr...815-story.html

Troubled Fort Lauderdale officer who broke veteran's hip cleared in civil lawsuit

By BY PAULA MCMAHON and SUN SENTINEL
AUG 15, 2012 AT 8:08 PM

The late Dock Williams sued suspended Fort Lauderdale police officer Matthew Moceri for allegedly using excessive force during an incident in July 2009 when Williams was 82. Williams was a veteran of World War II and was disabled by injuries he suffered in the Korean War. Williams died in December 2011 in an unrelated accident.
The late Dock Williams sued suspended Fort Lauderdale police officer Matthew Moceri for allegedly using excessive force during an incident in July 2009 when Williams was 82. Williams was a veteran of World War II and was disabled by injuries he suffered in the Korean War. Williams died in December 2011 in an unrelated accident. (Sun Sentinel)
The 82-year-old disabled veteran of two wars filed a civil lawsuit accusing a troubled Fort Lauderdale police officer of illegally arresting him and using excessive force – "slamming" him to the ground, shattering his hip and forcing him to use a wheelchair for the last 2 1/2 years of his life.

The officer, Matthew Moceri, testified that he acted reasonably and that Dock Williams' injury was a regrettable accident, brought on by him interfering in a police matter.


Williams had challenged Moceri for stopping two young black men, including his grandson, and ordering them to lie on the ground outside Williams' home in a crimeridden part of northwest Fort Lauderdale in July 2009.

But Williams' didn't get to tell his side of what happened during the July 2009 incident — he died in December, age 84, after being struck by a car while crossing the street in his wheelchair.


On Wednesday, a jury took about 20 minutes to side with the officer in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, rejecting all the allegations against him.

Moceri, 29, looked relieved when he heard the verdicts, although he is still facing even bigger legal worries.


Moceri, a former member of the so-called "Raiders" or Street Crimes Unit, is suspended without pay from his detective job pending the outcome of state criminal charges of perjury, official misconduct and falsifying records in an unrelated case in an upscale neighborhood on the other side of town. Moceri denies the allegations and has pleaded not guilty.

The eight jurors in the civil lawsuit were not told about Moceri's other legal troubles because a judge ruled the criminal allegations – involving a November 2009 police chase, crash and alleged beating of a white suspect in Rio Vista – were not relevant to the civil case.

Williams' lawyer Gregory Durden, who filed the civil lawsuit, said he thought that part of the difficulty of proving his case was that Williams' death obviously meant he wasn't available to testify in court.

"You need a live person in court for the jury to connect with and he just was not there," Durden said.

Williams' granddaughter Tamira Williams, who took over the lawsuit as the representative of his estate, said she was disappointed by the verdict.

"It will happen again," she said of Moceri's alleged misconduct.

Moceri declined to comment.

Moceri testified in court that he had used the lowest level of physical force that was reasonable in the circumstances to stop Dock Williams from obstructing his investigation. Moceri testified that he had placed Williams -- a veteran of World War II who was left disabled by injuries sustained in the Korean War -- on his stomach on the ground.

The officer also told the jurors that the 82-year-old had not complained of pain at the scene. Williams had to get a hip replacement, use a motorized wheelchair, and needed full-time care after the incident, according to medical and court records. He became reclusive and moved out of his home because he came to fear the police, his lawyer said.

Other witnesses testified that Williams, who was so unstable on his feet that he used a cane attached to his wrist with a strap and was frail because of a laundry list of ailments including asthma, had voiced his disapproval about how the officers were acting. They said he was hobbling over to the officers but was knocked to the ground before he got near them.

Jurors declined to comment on their verdict as they left the courthouse.

Durden said he understood why the other allegations against Moceri could not legally be used in the civil case but added: "I hope the jury in the criminal case is not as kind to him as this jury was."

In the unrelated criminal case, Moceri is one of three police officers accused of chasing a burglary suspect from the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Marina hotel on Southeasth 17th Street to a residential street in Rio Vista, where they crashed. The officers filed police reports stating that the suspect tried to run down two of them and that he rammed their undercover vehicle, which state prosecutors said was contradicted by the physical evidence.

Moceri has been suspended from his job since April 2011. His pay was stopped after he was arrested in May of this year. Police officials said Wednesday that an internal affairs investigation will go forward after the criminal case is over.

In the civil lawsuit, Williams' lawyer had asked to jury to award damages of more than $425,000 and to find Moceri liable, though the city would have had to cover the costs.

Williams, a Fort Lauderdale resident for 52 years, had worked alongside civil rights pioneers Eula Johnson and Von D. Mizell to desegregate the police department.

Williams' lawsuit said that Fort Lauderdale officers had targeted teens outside his home on three occasions in a single day in July 2009 and that he demanded to know why Moceri and another officer ordered Williams' 19-year-old grandson and another young man to the ground.


Williams refused orders to go back to his apartment and said he was entitled to ask questions about how officers were behaving in his neighborhood. Moceri told him he was interfering with an investigation, threw him down and arrested him, Williams told the Sun Sentinel in an interview last year a month before he died.

Prosecutors charged Williams with misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest and assault, but later dismissed the case. They said they found no evidence that he resisted arrest and said his age and the fact that he used a cane made a conviction unlikely.

The officers said they had received an anonymous tip that two young men were selling drugs but none were found and no drugs charges were ever filed.

Williams' grandson, Darryl Bryan, was arrested on a misdemeanor count of resisting without violence but Broward County Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren acquitted Bryan of the charge. In dismissing the case, she said she found it shocking that the officer brought Williams to the ground.

"How you get an elderly man with a cane to the point where you have EMS coming is really imagery that I can barely fathom," the judge said, according to a court transcript. "I just can't fathom it."

pmcmahon@tribune.com, 954-356-4533 or Twitter @SentinelPaula

Why has Moceri not been fired years ago?

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ELEVEN years ago is your greatest track record of 'a history of'?

I just bumped into this post for looking into who this officer was also, and it's hilarious that's the same, and only, article I found. No images either. I just wanted to know how old he was cause he has a lion heart, and now I see the Devil's already conspiring on his tenure.

Trumptards are sad, they cheerlead old men & litle girls getting beat by police & military vets getting peppersprayed, yet CRY over these psychopaths menacing our great country getting jailed for blatantly obvious jailable offenses with quite underadequate 'handling', in other words, Just Like Everybody Else. Commend Sgt. Moceri for that excellent execution of procedure! America will be Great Again once all of these characters & their sympathizers are wiped clean from our institution & put back to miserable spectating conspirer position rather than the enabled crooks. America is already over you weirdos. Time for GI JOE to put the boot on your neck! THE REAL #MAGA campaign! **** COBRA! **** THE SERPENT PEOPLE! WOO! Keep slithering you snakes!

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I hope you lose your job and get charged for battery you coward. I bet you wouldn't tackle a actual combative subject. You would be 10 ft away stumbling to taser the guy.

You're not tough just because you tackled a gentle man.

& I definitely hope YOU lose YOUR job & worse for attempting to doxx & harassing/intimidating/gathering intel on a police officer. As soon as America is rid of you vermin type, the greatness & prosperity of our country will return.

& "gentle man"? You're soft as shlt boy! Grow a spine!