Former Transit Police Officer Nicholas Morrissey indicted after authorities say he pinned his knee on the back of a Black man
Updated Feb 01, 2021;
A former Transit police officer was indicted by a Suffolk County grand jury last week in connection to an incident last April when authorities say he pinned a Black man face down on the ground with his knee and filed a report that was contradicted by video.
Nicholas Morrissey, 41, was indicted on charges of assault and battery, assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, violating the victim’s civil rights and filing a false report, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office said. He is expected to be arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court on March 5.
A former transit police officer has been indicted on multiple charges for allegedly abusing a 63-year-old Black man and filing a misleading report about the incident, Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins office announced Monday.
Officer Nicholas Morrissey, 41, was charged with assault and battery, assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon (the pavement), violating the victim’s civil rights and filing a false report.
The incident occurred April 28, 2020, when transit police were called to Forest Hills Station in Jamaica Plain for a report of an intoxicated homeless man who refused to leave a bus, according to the DA s office. Officer Nicholas Morrissey, who is white, allegedly dragged the man from the bus and forcibly held him face-down with a knee on his back for 20 seconds, the office said. Morrissey also allegedly pushed the man s head into the pavement and then later dragged him out of the bus lane.
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