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Lynn police officer to face charges next month in connection with alleged beating of Black man in holding cell By Thomas Grillo Globe Correspondent,Updated February 26, 2021, 7:31 p.m. Email to a Friend Share Embed At the Lynn police station, Victor White refused to take off a medical mask, and former officer Matthew Coppinger responded by punching White. A former Lynn police officer will face charges in court next month for the alleged June assault on a Black man in custody after a clerk magistrate ruled Friday there was probable cause for the case to move forward. Matthew Coppinger, who is white, resigned from the Lynn Police Department days after the alleged beating on the morning of June 15 was caught on a police station security camera. The 35-year-old ....
A clerk magistrate ruled on Friday that a former Lynn police officer will face criminal charges next month for allegedly assaulting a Black man in custody last June. Matthew Coppinger, 35, is accused of assaulting Victor White, who was arrested on his front stoop last June after officers were called for a noise complaint and found him and two friends hanging out. The assistant clerk magistrate, Paul Burns, reviewed 90 seconds of silent video footage from a police holding cell that Coppinger and White were in, ruling that Coppinger will be tried on assault and battery charges. The video showed Coppinger and another officer standing over White, who is sitting on a bench in the holding cell. Suddenly, both are on the floor, and Coppinger is seen repeatedly striking White. ....
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