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Town, officer strike a deal
Misconduct charges against New Britain police Officer Edward Kraft have been resolved, avoiding a full Civil Service Commission hearing, said Marc Rickles, an attorney for the commission.
Rickles said Kraft accepted on Monday a charge of general misconduct stemming from accusations he sexually harassed a female borough employee between July and October 2007. A charge of sexual harassment was dropped.
The officer apologized to the employee “for any conduct that may have offended her,” said Rickles, and she accepted that apology. A written apology may follow, he said.
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KUTV - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
10 December 2008
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Allegations Of Misconduct Agai
Trouble for a man who was once hailed as a hero cop. Officer Ken Hammond of the Ogden Police Department has been slapped with a federal civil rights lawsuit.
Officer Hammond was called a hero for cutting short a shooting rampage at Trolley Square that left five shoppers dead. He is being accused in a lawsuit of roughing up a woman while he was arresting her husband.
Natasha Child has filed a civil lawsuit against Kenneth Hammond and the Ogden Police Department because Child contends Hammond treated her inappropriately in May.
"I was terrified, I was scared he would do more than he did," said Child who made the allegations in the civil lawsuit, filed in federal court Tuesday.
Child said one May night her husband called to tell her he was being arrested, Child said she went to the scene of the arrest and found Hammond allegedly beating up her husband. Child said she protested and was immediately arrested by Hammond. She claimed Hammond took her down a dark street, out of the sight of other officers, then began pulling her hair, and wrenching her handcuffed wrists behind her back. "She actually thought that her wrist might break, the pain was that great," said Child’s attorney, Robert Sykes.
Child said during the scuffle, her pants began to fall down, and Hammond refused to allow her to pull them up, "He slammed me on the ground with all his body weight," said Child. She said Hammond then picked her up off the ground and as they approached his patrol car, she felt a tug on her jeans. "He took his hand and grabbed her pants and pulled them all the way down to her ankle," said Sykes, "then pushed her up against the car and pushed his body against her," he continued saying that Child was only wearing underwear beneath her jeans.
Ogden police held a news conference on Wednesday about the allegations but would not go into any detail because the lawsuit is pending. Assistant Police Chief Steven Watt said complaints like this are not uncommon.
“It’s just another day in the office for us. We take the complaint. We review it with the city attorney. It goes over there. They deal with it. They start the processes required in order to defend the department or the officer’s actions,” said Watt.
It has been a rough month for Hammond, just weeks ago he was suspended for a separate case of misconduct filed against him. Assistant Chief Watt says Hammond is already on paid leave while another complaint against him is investigated. He says most complaints don't have any merit.
“The fact that I think is clear is that Ken Hammond, due to his notoriety and his heroism at Trolley Square, is being subjected to a little more scrutiny than he might normally be subjected to or another officer might be subjected to in this case,” Watt said.
Child's attorney said Hammond has many questions to answer. "This guy was a hero of Trolley Square but that status does not give you the right to abuse arrestees in violation of the 4th amendment."
Sykes also said supervisors at the Ogden Police Department are culpable in Hammond's actions because of allegations of previous misconduct that they overlooked, partially because of Hammond's new found hero status.
Childs said her complaints of abuse have gone mostly unheard and uninvestigated by Ogden officials, with the exception of one female officer who encouraged her to keep looking for justice. "She said, 'please don't drop this, he's done this numerous times, but nobody has followed through,'" Child continued, "She (female officer) said he was basically close to losing his job, (before the Trolley Square shooting) but because of the Trolley Square shooting they kept him on because of that."
Hammond is credited with helping end the Feb. 12, 2007, shooting spree at Salt Lake City's Trolley Square mall by drawing his weapon and engaging the shooter in a gun battle. He continues to remain on paid leave while both cases are investigated.
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