Vindication!

One cop faces a possible lock up. Another faces a cannon firing.

Bad cops get served. 

I get we have irate customers at businesses. But when the subject is leaving the property and the police arrive, the subject does not have any obligation to identify themselves if they are leaving. The subject must be inside the building and still disrupting the facility to be trespassed. If they are caught shoplifting and are witnessed by store security, they are then trespassed from the business. 

The former Butler Township sergeant who struck a woman at a Dayton, Ohio McDonald's is found guilty and will face possible time in the county lock up.

Judge James Brown, a visiting judge, found former sergeant Todd Stanley guilty of assaulting Laticka Hancock during an arrest at a local McDonald’s earlier this year.

“At the time she was struck, I find that she was not a threat to the officer, and the actions taken by him in striking her, was an assault, and therefore, I find him guilty,” Brown said.

Stanley’s trial started in Vandalia Municipal Court with opening statements and with witnesses from prosecutors, including the woman Stanley was caught on video punching. Stanley is facing a misdemeanor assault stemming.

Laticka Hancock was vindicated.

Officers said Hancock repeatedly ignored their request for her name and date of birth to properly fill out the trespass notice.

When Stanley went to get his trespass notice form, Officer Tim Zellars told her she was being placed under arrest for failing to identify herself. The officers claimed Hancock resisted arrest and in the struggle to handcuff her, Stanley punched her two or three times in the head and face. Videos posted to social media provided another look at the punches being delivered.

Hancock took the stand and told the court she felt scared for her life.

“I was scared because I never had that kind of interaction with cops,” Hancock said.

“Butler Township appreciates the work of the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation. Todd Stanley has not been a member of the Butler Township Police Department since April 2023.” Butler Township Police Chief John Porter said in a statement.

Stanley was put on administrative leave after the incident. We learned in court Friday that the sergeant retired on May 1.