Video: Detroit police officer punches MGM Grand casino patron [View All]

I'm guessing this is gonna cost Detroit taxpayers somewhere in the middle six figures.


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Video: Detroit police officer punches MGM Grand casino patron
6:10 PM, Sep. 26, 2011
BY TRESA BALDAS
DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER


A Livonia man accused of inappropriately touching a waitress at the MGM Grand Detroit casino is suing the city of Detroit, saying a Detroit police officer beat him to a pulp – even slugged him when he was down -- in an unprovoked attack over the summer.

And he has surveillance video to prove it, he says.

According to court records filed in federal court in Detroit, the incident took place July 30 at the U Me Drink club at the MGM Grand. Patrick Poisson, 38, of Livonia had allegedly inappropriately touched a waitress’s buttocks and would not leave the bar, so the casino’s security summoned Detroit police for help.

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Poisson says in his lawsuit that he complied with the officer’s request to leave, but that as he walked out, Dudal got in his face and threw a roundhouse right-hand punch, striking his nose, and followed with a left hook to the head, knocking him to the ground. As he lay on the ground in the fetal position, he says, Dudal slugged him again, fracturing two ribs.

Two days later, a warrant was issued for Poisson’s arrest, seeking to charge him with assault and battery on a police officer – saying he threw the first punch – and fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct for touching the waitress.

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