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Watch Gretna, LA police officer kick handcuffed suspect; officer fired, arrested
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/09/robert_wallow_gretna_police_ki.htmlA Gretna police officer was fired and arrested on criminal charges, accused of kicking a handcuffed burglary suspect in an incident caught on video, authorities said Friday (Sept. 16). Robert Wallow, 47, was booked with simple battery and malfeasance in office, Chief Arthur Lawson said.
"This is not one of the brightest days of the Gretna Police Department," Lawson said.
Wallow had responded to a business burglary April 22 when surveillance cameras recorded him kicking suspect Carlos Gustavo Pineda, 21, as the man lay handcuffed on the ground.
Wallow was placed on administrative leave on Aug. 26. The department terminated him Thursday.
"This is not one of the brightest days of the Gretna Police Department," Lawson said.
Wallow had responded to a business burglary April 22 when surveillance cameras recorded him kicking suspect Carlos Gustavo Pineda, 21, as the man lay handcuffed on the ground.
Wallow was placed on administrative leave on Aug. 26. The department terminated him Thursday.
Let him wallow in his misery.
"This is not one of the brightest days of the Gretna Police Department". Neither was August 29, 2005, when Gretna cops blocked mostly African American people trying to flee the Katrina flooding in New Orleans by walking across the bridge that leads to Gretna, which did not flood.
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another cop caught in the act. 
I lived a few blocks from the end of the St. Charles streetcar line for an all-too-brief two years.
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