LAPD Officer Testifies He Lied About Beating
A Los Angeles police officer who was on patrol with a fellow officer accused of beating two people on a Pacoima street corner last year said Monday he had once lied about the incident out of loyalty to his police “family.”
“It’s like telling on an uncle or a brother or father,” Officer Scott Kennedy said in opening-day testimony at the trial of Lance L. Braun in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Braun, now retired, is accused of using excessive force in the beating of Theresa Carney and William Gable in August, 1990. After the incident, when the pair of officers were called back to Foothill Division to answer questions, Kennedy said Braun told him, “Don’t worry about it. We were never there.” Kennedy, at first, told his supervisor that version but later changed his account. Braun was suspended for 22 days after an investigation.
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