'Finish yourself off': Cop suspended, sergeant fired after video reveals police taunting distressed man
by Megan Jones, The Beacon-News
Aug 24, 2018
4 minutes
Yorkville, Ill., police fired one sergeant and disciplined two officers after one of them taunted a 44-year-old man for living with his mother and urged the man who was choking himself to "finish yourself off."
Police dashcam video obtained by The Beacon-News shows officers responding to a disturbance in a residential neighborhood Sept. 14, 2017, and the situation escalates as the man and his mother go inside their home. The man yells obscenities at officers. Officer Jeffrey Johnson then ridicules the man, challenges him to "bring it," and later tells other officers the man is "getting tased immediately - just FYI," according
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