Syracuse cop with checkered past sued again for brutality, this time by a retired jail doctor
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
Posted Dec 22, 2020
Mark Johnston, front, is filing a lawsuit against the Syracuse Police Department for alleged brutality. He claims officer Vallon Smith wrongly beat him up and broke his ribs last year on Mountain Goat Sunday after a dispute over a parking space. Behind him is attorney Jesse Ryder. Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com
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Now, Smith faces another brutality lawsuit: this time, by a former doctor at the county lockup.
Dr. Mark Johnston, 65, of Syracuse, alleges that Smith needlessly punched and tackled him at last year’s Mountain Goat Run downtown. Johnston was the medical administrator for 10 years at the Jamesville penitentiary. Police have said Johnston was the initial aggressor and that Smith was coming to the aid of another officer.
2nd person charged with murdering Syracuse man during botched Christmas Eve robbery
Updated Dec 09, 2020;
Posted Dec 09, 2020
Syracuse police investigate the shooting of Donjuante Anderson Sr. at 222 Turtle St. on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2019. Anderson died days after the shooting.
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Syracuse, N.Y. A second arrest has been made in the death of a Syracuse father shot during a botched robbery last Christmas Eve.
Yamil E. Osorio, 23, of East Syracuse, has been charged with murdering Donjuante Anderson Sr. on the North Side. Osorio was arrested Wednesday, seven months after a 15-year-old boy, Jamal Nobles, was charged with killing Anderson.
Anderson, 30, is survived by his three children, according to his obituary.