One Lansing Police officer has been terminated and two get to keep their jobs after an internal investigation into the Baker Street arrest incident that happened back in November.
In that incident, at least 5 officers can be seen on video striking a 25 year-old man pinned to the ground while the person recording begs police not to kill him. Three officers were placed on paid administrative leave following the incident, pending an internal investigation.
The Lansing Police Department’s Internal Affairs announced that officer Alex Rojas has been terminated for escalating the situation.
Officers Alec Slobin and Morgan Schager were exonerated. In the statement, Lansing Police did not say what they discovered in their investigation that exonerated Slobin and Schager.
LANSING A Lansing Police Department officer has been fired for escalating a situation in November.
Officer Alex Rojas was terminated after an internal investigation found he caused other officers to use higher levels of force during a Nov. 10 arrest, Police Chief Daryl Green said in a statement.
The other two officers, Alec Slobin and Morgan Schafer, were not fired. Asked what the internal investigation found regarding the other two officers, LPD Public Information Director Robert Merritt said he did not have the information. You are welcome to file a (Freedom of Information Act) request, he wrote in an email.
All three officers were placed on paid administrative leave while Michigan State Police and the Ingham County Prosecutor investigated the incident. The prosecutor did not file charges against the officers, but said their actions were concerning in March.
Officers cleared of wrongdoing in in-custody death during struggle
Updated Apr 09, 1:17 PM;
Posted Apr 09, 1:17 PM
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LANSING, MI – Officers involved in the custody of Anthony Scott Hulon, whose heart stopped they were attempting to restrain him in his cell, have been cleared of wrongdoing.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel today announced the findings of the investigation into the death of 54-year-old Hulon, of Lansing, who died at the Lansing Police Department Detention Center on April 11, 2020.
Nessel’s office determined that the officers “did what they were supposed to do under the circumstances,” and that Hulon’s death was related to hypertensive atherosclerotic disease from which he suffered, and amphetamines and methamphetamines in his system at the time of his death, according to a news release.
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