While there, Buoniconti, an officer with the N.C. Port Authority police, took him into custody after he was mistaken for a man named Shawn L. Hill wanted in St. Louis, Missouri on felony forgery charges.
Although Hill protested and the lawsuit states Buoniconti saw the social security numbers did not match, no fingerprinting was done and Hill spent more than two weeks in New Hanover jail before being released.
Buoniconti was hired by N.C. Ports on March 3, 2014, according to information provided by Laura Blair, N.C. Ports vice president of administration and external affairs. He is a police officer with a salary of $38,495 and the employment history provided by the agency, which is public record per N.C. law, shows his previous salary increases were due to either a cost of living increase, market change, or were merit based.
Lawsuit says officer broke car window, threw driver on glass
Associated Press 2 hrs ago
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) A Black motorist says a white North Carolina police officer threw her onto broken glass after he broke her car window with his baton in 2018, leaving her with multiple cuts that required hospital treatment, according to a lawsuit.
Danielle Helena Downing, now 39, of Charlotte, says in the lawsuit filed on April 2 in federal court in Charlotte, that Mooresville police Officer Josh Barlow used his baton to smash her car window as she was attempting to hand him her vehicle registration, The Charlotte Observer reported Tuesday. Mooresville is about 30 miles (45 kilometers) north of Charlotte.
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A Charlotte woman says in a lawsuit that a Mooresville police officer used his baton to smash her car window as she was attempting to hand him her vehicle registration.
A Black motorist says a white Mooresville police officer threw her onto broken glass after he broke her car window with his baton in 2018, leaving her with multiple cuts that required hospital treatment, according to a lawsuit.
Danielle Helena Downing, now 39, of Charlotte, says in the lawsuit filed on April 2 in federal court in Charlotte that Mooresville police officer Josh Barlow used his baton to smash her car window as she was attempting to hand him her vehicle registration, the Charlotte Observer reported Tuesday. Mooresville is about 30 miles north of Charlotte.
Lawsuit says North Carolina officer broke car window, threw driver on glass
Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) A Black motorist says a white North Carolina police officer threw her onto broken glass after he broke her car window with his baton in 2018, leaving her with multiple cuts that required hospital treatment, according to a lawsuit.
Danielle Helena Downing, now 39, of Charlotte, says in the lawsuit filed on April 2 in federal court in Charlotte, that Mooresville police Officer Josh Barlow used his baton to smash her car window as she was attempting to hand him her vehicle registration, The Charlotte Observer reported Tuesday. Mooresville is about 30 miles (45 kilometers) north of Charlotte.