After Providence Police officer Jeann Lugo was arrested on assault charges at the Rhode Island State House rally on Friday, he is facing new internal charges and Providence Police are recommending he be fired.
The Providence Department of Public Safety announced a criminal investigation into the conduct of an off-duty police officer at a Roe v. Wade protest Friday.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) The chief of police in Rhode Island's capital has recommended that a city officer charged with assaulting a woman during an abortion-rights protest should lose his job. Patrolman Jeann Lugo's “disturbing, egregious, assaultive and unprofessional behavior while off duty, has brought discredit to your name and has tarnished the proud reputation of the Providence Police Department," chief Col.