LOCAL : Officers Deny Guilt in Sting Incident
Two Long Beach police officers pleaded innocent today to misdemeanor charges stemming from a secretly videotaped confrontation with a black civil rights activist that ended with the man’s head crashing through a plate-glass window.
Officer Mark Dickey is charged with assault and filing a false report, while his partner, Officer Mark Ramsey, is charged only with filing a false report.
The two men entered their pleas in Long Beach Municipal Court, and a pretrial hearing was scheduled for June 29.
Dickey and Ramsey pulled over Don Jackson, a former Hawthorne police officer, on Jan. 14 as Jackson and another man drove into Long Beach followed by an NBC camera crew. Another video camera was mounted in the rear of the car driven by the two men as part of Jackson’s “sting” operation.
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