How some cops accused of violent assaults get off with disturbing the peace

How some California cops accused of violent assaults get off with ‘disturbing the peace’

Charles Foster was among three San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies charged with beating and taunting a suspect at the end of a three-hour pursuit through the Mojave Desert, but the only one convicted of a felony in the assault. A judge, however, set aside the jury verdict and prosecutors then allowed the fired deputy to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disturbing the peace. Foster appealed his termination, was reinstated to the department and today works at a sheriff’s detention center in Adelanto. Jimmie Alfred Walker was working for the Barstow Police Department when, in a drunken rage, he ...

• Nick Downey, San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy
  
• Michael Phelps, San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy
  
• Charles Foster, San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy

A chase, a beating and criminal charges: Apple Valley resident Francis Jared Pusok, a convicted felon with a laundry list of prior offenses, led sheriff’s deputies on a three-hour chase — in a car and on foot — through Apple Valley, Victorville and Hesperia on April 9, 2015, before falling from a horse he had stolen while fleeing. Ten deputies assisted in detaining Pusok, but Deputies Nick Downey, Michael Phelps and Foster were criminally charged for punching or kicking Pusok after he was subdued and no longer considered a threat. A jury convicted Foster of felony assault by a public ...

• Jimmie Alfred Walker, Barstow Police Department officer

A drunken rage and racial slurs: Witnesses say off-duty Barstow police Walker was intoxicated when he went to visit a friend on Aug. 26, 2010. According to a trial brief filed in Victorville Superior Court, Walker quickly began harassing Lance Miles, a black man who also was visiting mutual friend Audra Ybarra at the home on Fifth Avenue. Walker spouted racial epithets at Miles and instigated a fight with him. Another witness, in an effort to de-escalate the situation, told Walker to ride with him to the store to buy more beer. That witness later told police Walker was “ranting ...

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How some cops accused of violent assaults get off with disturbing the peace

Six months later, in October 2015, the girl told a teacher at school that her father had hit her again, causing a black eye, swollen lip and a cut ear. “During an interview with Jorge Caamal, he ...

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How some California cops accused of violent assaults get off with ‘disturbing the peace’

Six months later, in October 2015, the girl told a teacher at school that her father had hit her again, causing a black eye, swollen lip and a cut ear. “During an interview with Jorge Caamal, he ...

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https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/1...t-assaults-get-off-with-disturbing-the-peace/