A former MBTA Transit Police sergeant was arrested Thursday on federal charges alleging he falsified an incident report in 2018 regarding an officer’s assault of a man at the Ashmont T stop, according to Acting US Attorney Joshua S. Levy’s office.
A public inquiry into the death of a man who was killed during a violent encounter with as many as nine Vancouver police officers is set to begin Monday proceedings that could see the officers publicly answer questions for the first time in more than seven years about what happened.