Excessive force lawsuit alleges Chicopee police fractured man’s skull
Updated Feb 03, 2021;
A man is accusing four Chicopee police officers of twice knocking him to the pavement with so much force that it fractured his skull into multiple pieces.
A lawsuit filed in November in U.S. District Court in Springfield by Rey L. Augustine Jr. accuses Officers Timothy Brodeur, Mickey Dumais, Frank McQuaid and Joseph Brunelle of using unnecessary force and conspiring to cover up the incident. The suit also names the city, Police Chief William R. Jebb and 10 other unnamed officers as defendants.
It accuses the city of violating Augustine’s civil rights of protection from cruel and unusual punishment and unreasonable searches.