Officer Joe Gutierrez was terminated from his employment after an investigation determined he did not follow policies of the local police department, the town of Windsor, Virginia said in a statement https://www.windsor-va.gov/news/article/april/11/2021/press-release-on-police-stop-of-december-5%2C-2020 Sunday. The statement did not detail any breaches or punishments for the other officer involved in the incident, Daniel Crocker. The firing comes after Army officer Caron Nazario filed a lawsuit against the two police officers in federal court over what court papers say was a violent traffic stop on Dec. 5, 2020, where officers pointed their guns, knocked him to the ground, pepper sprayed him and "threatened to murder him."
Police officer who pepper-sprayed US Army soldier fired
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media captionThe traffic stop was captured on police bodycam footage
A police officer in Virginia has been fired after pointing a gun at, and pepper spraying, a black US army lieutenant during a traffic stop.
Army Second Lieutenant Caron Nazario is wearing his uniform in bodycam footage of the incident, filmed in December. I m honestly afraid to get out, he tells two police officers. Yeah, you should be, an officer says.
Police said he was stopped for failing to display number plates but temporary plates are visible in the video.
Lt Nazario filed a lawsuit against the two officers, Joe Gutierrez and Daniel Crocker, this week.
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One of two police officers accused of pepper-spraying and pointing their guns at a black US Army officer during a traffic stop has since been fired, a Virginia town announced late on Sunday, hours after the governor called for an independent investigation into the case.
The town of Windsor said in a statement that it joined calls from elected state officials, including Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, in requesting an independent investigation by the Virginia State Police into an encounter on Dec. 5 last year in which two Windsor Police Department officers were accused of drawing their guns, pointing them at US