Tag: Dominic Coppola
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Coconut Creek police botched 82 child rape and other cases; Dashed hopes for justice
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The Coconut Creek police botched dozens of criminal cases involving disturbing reports about children who were raped or abused and seniors who were neglected or exploited. But what happened has remained largely hidden from public view. -
Coconut Creek police probe of officer in bathtub Taser incident missed facts, short on answers
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
An internal police investigation of a Coconut Creek officer who pulled his Taser while interrogating a frightened theft suspect in a bathtub omitted relevant facts and did not follow department policy. -
Don’t ask, don’t tell at the Broward State Attorney’s Office
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Broward prosecutors who declined to charge a Coconut Creek policeman who pulled a Taser on a frightened theft suspect standing in a bathtub never asked the officer under oath why he hadn’t mentioned the incident in his police reports. -
No charges in Coconut Creek police misconduct case; prosecutors OK with enhanced interrogation
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
A Coconut Creek police officer who held an activated Taser stun gun at the ready while questioning a frightened 19-year-old theft suspect he made stand in a bathtub won’t be charged with a crime. Civil rights advocates call the police interrogation of Blake L. Robinson a disturbing example of police misconduct akin to torture. But Broward corruption prosecutors did not see it that way.
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