BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - The Buffalo Police Department has suspended an officer as it investigates brutality allegations stemming from the videotaped arrest of a suspect who was beaten while handcuffed.
Local media report police officials said Tuesday that Officer John Cirulli has been suspended from duty without pay for violating departmental rules and regulations.
Officials say Cirulli has been identified as the officer who punched and kicked a 22-year-old man after he was handcuffed and lying face-down on the ground.
Cirulli was one of six officers placed on leave earlier this week. The move came after the police commissioner and Mayor Byron Brown were emailed copies of a video showing officers subduing a man and handcuffing him after a chase on the night of April 19.
The video shows an officer hitting and kicking the man after he’s handcuffed.
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