Nov 6, 2023
CRUEL Cop Who Tased Man Multiple Times Faces Charges
- 9 minutes
There's a cop,
he decides to become violent.
He has been charged, here's the video.
>> Speaker 3: Shut it off,
shut the [INAUDIBLE] thing off or die!
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Shut it off!
>> Speaker 3: You better [INAUDIBLE] stop,
you better [INAUDIBLE] stop!
On the ground, on the ground!
[SOUND]
>> Taser, taser, taser, one down.
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On your stomach,
on your [INAUDIBLE] stomach now!
>> I'm sorry.
>> On your [INAUDIBLE] stomach now!
[SOUND]
>> On your [INAUDIBLE] stomach!
How many times did I tell you?
>> I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
>> Speaker 5: Put your [INAUDIBLE]
hands behind your back now!
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>> Sorry, Officer, I'm sorry, I didn't
know what the [INAUDIBLE] happened.
>> Shut the up!
>> Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
>> Speaker 3: Put your [INAUDIBLE] hands,
you're getting another ride,
you're getting another [INAUDIBLE] taser.
And put your hands on your back.
>> Speaker 4: Got you, sorry, sir.
You know what happened.
>> Speaker 5: Put your, all right,
you didn't know the [INAUDIBLE].
>> Please [SOUND].
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>> Put your [INAUDIBLE] hands
behind your [INAUDIBLE] back now!
>> Hey, officer, please,
don't do that no more.
>> Speaker 3: Then start
[INAUDIBLE] complying [INAUDIBLE]!
>> They're behind my back.
>> Speaker 3: Shut the [INAUDIBLE] up!
>> I'm sorry.
>> Put up the picture
profile full mass here.
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Let me explain to you what you just saw.
Officer Nicholas Kehoss has
been charged with cruelty.
He has been arrested and
charged with third degree assault for
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cruelty against a human being.
On Monday, after Naugatuck Police
Department released a body
cam video showing an October 14th
incident in which the officer deployed
his taser several times on
a 33-year-old named Jarrell Day.
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Who police say has been arrested for
stealing $200 worth of beer.
The six-minute,
43-second body cam video shows
the moment Kehoss and
fellow officer John Williams first
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encountered Day in his car
with multiple cases of beer.
As Williams attempted to open
the passenger door, Day drove off.
Officer Kehoss pursued Day's vehicle,
ultimately catching up to him
when Day crashed into a pole.
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Kehoss got out of his vehicle and
started running after Day, yelling,
better blank stop,
as he drew his taser and fired at Day.
So Kehoss told Day,
get on his stomach, you saw this part,
activated the taser again,
as Day rolled to his stomach and said,
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Officer, I'm sorry,
I don't know what the blank happened.
Kehoss put his hand on Day's
face as he grabbed his hands and
placed them behind Day's back.
Now, put up this picture,
I wanna show you profile here.
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Day continued to plead with
the officer before the officer said,
you're getting another ride!
Ride is their way of saying,
ride the lightning or
the electricity going through your body.
And he decided to fire his
taser again as the man
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lay on the ground with his back facing
the officer, as the officer said.
Documents provided to ABC News by
the department shows that Officer Kehoss
has been disciplined multiple times
during his 13-year tenure as a cop.
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Most recently,
Officer Kehoss was suspended
in August 2022 for completing a version
of what Police Chief C Colin McAllister
described
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as a boxing-in maneuver
during a traffic stop.
A move not authorized for
that type of simple incident.
In a letter to the Police Commission,
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notifying of the disciplinary action
taken against Officer Kehoss.
McAllister said the same tactic and
boxing-in game maneuver was
cited as the underlying cause that
led to Kehoss discharging his
firearm at a suspect during
a traffic stop incident in 2020.
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2017, Kehoss responded to help
during an attempted traffic
stop by another officer in which Kehoss
claimed he'd been struck by the vehicle.
An investigation into the incident
stated that the video
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evidence showed that Kehos's
vehicle clearly had not been hit.
Adding that while this review was unable
to provide that officer Kehoss made
a false statement, a false report that his
cruiser was struck by the suspect vehicle.
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It does find the situation troubling and
raises reasonable doubt.
Now, understand what's happening here,
you have a tapestry of a lying
cop who literally has already
committed multiple felony offenses.
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He has violated oath of office,
he has filed a false police report at
least once, I'm sure there's more.
And they are aware that he has been
lying and filing false police reports,
they even have a video of him
lying about what happened.
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There's more,
the investigation actually recommended,
at that time, that Kehoss be, quote,
verbally counseled in regards
to making radio transmissions
that could be construed as
trying to justify a pursuit.
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And that his actions in any future
pursuit reviews be closely examined.
In other words, they knew the future, they
knew he was going to do something like
this, go extreme on a simple incident,
he has a history of it, all right?
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There's more, Day is currently
facing charges of robbery,
larceny, interfering with an officer and
resisting, reckless driving, and
disobeying the signal of an officer.
He was released on a $200,000 bond.
Meanwhile, Officer Kehoss was released
on a $50,000 bond on Monday and
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is scheduled to appear at
a Waterbury Superior Court soon.
I know there are some who
are going to say, well,
the guy should have just complied, okay?
When he did comply,
the problematic officer who
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actually has a criminal past
without being arrested,
did exactly what they said he would do,
eventually.
Is make something extreme
out of something small.
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See, there's no issue pursuing someone,
there's no issue when the arrest was made.
The issue is, once a person is
complying with the officer,
that individual is on his
stomach as mandated by the cop.
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The cop is still angry and
decides to tase the human being over and
over again, well, that's criminal now,
that is criminal.
You know how many people die because
of excessive use of a taser?
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And I want you to
contextualize it properly,
if he would have died because of this,
right?
It would have been due to stolen beer,
stolen beer,
and an officer who was outraged that
a person who committed theft ran.
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All right, David, thoughts here.
>> Speaker 6: Well, look,
I'm relieved that the officer
has actually been charged.
In too many cases, this happens and
police departments double down and
defend a police officer.
>> Yeah.
>> And don't do anything,
guess that's some good news.
But the police department should
have known this was bound to happen,
this guy had a record as
being a loose cannon.
And when somebody's a loose cannon,
the community is in danger.
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And to underscore your point, Dr.
Richey, you cannot use excessive
force as a police officer.
The courts have ruled you cannot use
excessive force unless the person who you
are trying to arrest poses an imminent
danger, safety hazard, to himself, to you,
the police officer, or to a bystander.
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Was any of that met?
Maybe when he was running away,
I suppose, but
once he's on the ground,
once he's on his stomach, at that point,
the officer cannot use excessive force,
the courts have said that repeatedly.
But the police department
should have seen this coming.
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And thank God this guy actually lived
through this awful experience because
I have a feeling if this police officer
were not arrested and has not been fired,
this sort of thing would happen again.
>> Speaker 4: There you go,
well said, we will update as his,
well, justice continues.
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