Ex-Officer Is Sentenced to 6 Years in Beating of Unarmed Man The former St. Paul, Minn., officer was convicted of using excessive force against a civilian who resembled the description of an armed suspect from a street fight. A screenshot from dashboard camera footage of an attack on a Minnesota man in 2016. An officer was convicted in the attack, which left the man with seven broken ribs.Credit...St. Paul Police May 24, 2021, 1:52 p.m. ET A former police officer in Minnesota was sentenced to six years in prison on Friday for kicking a Black man who was on the ground being bitten by a police dog after police mistook him for an armed suspect from a street fight in 2016, according to the authorities and court documents.