4th OPD officer to face criminal charges of excessive force

"Orlando Police Officer Peter Delio is facing criminal charges for rupturing a man's spleen in a holding cell"

For the fourth time, an Orlando police officer is facing criminal charges after being accused of using excessive violence related to behavior while on duty in 2014.

Officer Peter Delio, 30, was booked into the Orange County Jail early Tuesday morning on felony battery charges and was quickly released on $2,500 bail.

Delio is accused of striking 41-year-old Robert Liese so hard in the abdomen with his knee that he ruptured the man's spleen and tore his stomach lining. The incident happened Aug. 12 inside a holding cell at an Orlando Police Department substation downtown."


*While inside the holding cell, Liese blacked out. By the time he woke up, he was at Orlando Regional Medical Center, and his spleen had already been removed.

"I woke up in the hospital to the nurse telling me they had to do emergency surgery and a doctor would be in to explain what happened," Liese said."
An internal-affairs investigation found that Delio had violated OPD policy when he struck Liese. As punishment for the administrative violation, Delio was suspended for 40 hours without pay, a consequence Liese said was too light to make up for his injures.

"He lost five days of pay," Liese said. "According to them, that's severe. I hate to see what they think minimal punishment is. I feel like I'm the only one paying for my injuries that he caused."

It took about two hours for Liese to get medical attention. Delio declined to be interviewed by FDLE investigators last month, the report said."

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