He testified that the officer connected with a knee and took a blow to his face, but he shied away from detailing the exchange blow by blow. I m not watching the guy s movements, Mattiello said. I m in the fight. You know. I shouldn t have to go through that.
Mattiello was the first witness in the case, taking questions from Assistant Attorney General Daniel Guglielmo before Magistrate Judge J. Patrick O Neill.
He had been arrested in the wake of a domestic incident involving his brother. He was accused of assaulting his brother with a piece of aluminum. Taken into custody by Leonard and Officer Zachary Burns, he faced a charge of felony assault.
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New team built from the ground up by the Attorney General will focus on civil-rights violations in Rhode Island Tom Mooney, The Providence Journal
PROVIDENCE In a divisive year that has seen more hate crimes and racially charged incidents of excessive force by police sparking demonstrations nationwide Rhode Island’s attorney general is giving renewed priority to civil-rights abuses.
Attorney General Peter F. Neronha has created a special four-member team of investigators to handle all civil-rights complaints that reach his office.
Previously such cases could have been handled by any of the office’s dozens of prosecutors, or often at the local community level by a city or town solicitor.