A former Mississippi police officer has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for forcing a man he had arrested to lick urine off a jail floor. A judge on Wednesday gave Michael Christian Green the maximum prison time on the misdemeanor charge of acting under the color of law to deprive a person of their civil rights. He pleaded guilty March 14. Green lost his job as a Pearl Police Department patrol officer in late December, four days after security cameras showed the violent encounter. Court documents did not mention race, but Green is white and a Pearl spokesperson said the man he arrested is Latino.
A former Mississippi police officer was sentenced Wednesday to a year in federal prison for forcing a man he had arrested to lick urine off the floor of a jail cell. Michael Christian Green received the maximum prison time on the misdemeanor charge of acting under the color of law to deprive a person of their civil rights. Green lost his job as a Pearl Police Department patrol officer in late December, four days after security cameras showed the violent encounter in Pearl, a suburb of the capita
A former Mississippi police officer has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for forcing a man he had arrested to lick urine off a jail floor. A judge
A former Mississippi police officer has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for forcing a man he had arrested to lick urine off a jail floor. A judge on Wednesday gave Michael Christian Green the maximum prison time on the misdemeanor charge of acting under the color of law to deprive a person of their civil rights. He pleaded guilty March 14. Green lost his job as a Pearl Police Department patrol officer in late December, four days after security cameras showed the violent encounter. Court documents did not mention race, but Green is white and a Pearl spokesperson said the man he arrested is Latino.