McBride has stayed the sentence pending the outcome of the prosecutor’s appeal.
Flinn was convicted of two counts of official misconduct after a jury determined he hit a 13-year-old girl during an arrest at an Erial group home in March 2018. Police body cams recorded the arrest, which occurred after officers responded to a report of a fight at the home.
A state health official described the arrest in a letter that announced the revocation of Flinn’s EMT certification earlier this year. Bodycam footage … showed the victim lying prostrate with both of her hands behind her back, wrote Terry Clancy, director of the state’s Office of Emergency Medical Services