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THE THIN BLUE LINE
A former Louisiana police officer was sentenced to over six years in prison after he kicked a suspect in the face who had already surrendered and had his hands behind his back, the Associated Press reports.
Jared Preston Desadier, 44, was sentenced to 78 months detention by a federal judge after he pled guilty to a single count of “deprivation of rights under color of law.” The incident took place in April 2020 when Desadier was employed by the Monroe Police Department.
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Officers were responding to an alarm in downtown Monroe when they encountered the suspect, who fled after officers found he was carrying a fake plastic gun and drug paraphernalia. The suspect surrendered and obeyed orders to lie on the ground, flat on his stomach with his hands behind his back, according to a document filed with his plea documents.
Desadier ran towards the victim and then asked his fellow officer whether the officer’s body-worn camera was recording, and when he was mistakenly told that the cameras were off, he continued to run towards victim and kicked him in the face. – Western District of Louisiana DOJ
“The bedrock of officer and citizen engagement is for the officer to, without exception, act professionally with a goal of deescalating tense situations,” U.S. Attorney Brandon B. Brown of the Western District of Louisiana said in a news release. “Here, this defendant instead decided to criminally escalate the situation by unnecessarily battering the victim.”