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Police say video footage showed Officer George Bermudez tripping one person, attempting to trip another

GEORGETOWN, Texas -- The Vandegrift girls soccer team claimed the 4A title after beating Wylie East this weekend.

It's the first time any soccer program from the Austin area has won the state championship but that's not the only thing parents and students are talking about days after. Many are outraged after witnessing a Georgetown police officer tripping and pushing students as they rushed the field to celebrate.

Police say video footage showed Officer George Bermudez tripping one person, attempting to trip another, physically restraining another person and shoving a fourth person as people leaped from the stands after Vandegrift High School won the state championship Saturday.

"We get in the dog pile and it's just crazy you know," said Gray Goolsby, a Vandegrift student who joined in the celebration.

But before long Goolsby felt a tug on his back.

"I felt this hand grab my shoulder and just pull me out of the dog pile and says, 'Get back to the stands,'" said Goolsby.

Goolsby says he holds no ill will against the officer who he believes was just trying to do his job.

"I hope he doesn't lose his job over this because we were just trying to have fun, and he's just trying to do his job, and hopefully everything works out," said Goolsby.

"These kids were excited. They wanted to celebrate," said parent Karen Morse. Morse's daughter is a junior on the team. "It was so exciting. In fact, it was so exciting, I jumped up and almost blacked out and hit the woman in front of me!"

Karen Morse watched as her daughter's hard work paid off but something else on the field also caught her attention.

"All the kids are jumping over, friends, boyfriends, everybody's just running. Then I see this police officer just sticking out his leg," she said.

In the video, you see a student hit the ground then limp away. Bermudez then sticks out his leg in an attempt to trip a girl, then grabs another student and pushes him away and then another girl is pushed to the ground.

"They just wanted to, you know, go and celebrate with the girls basically and have a good time," said sophomore Rohan Gupta. "We're just kids running on to a field to celebrate our team and it was kind of too much. It was kind of a cheap shot going for his legs," he said.

Gupta also caught it on his phone and uploaded this video to YouTube.

"We've been inundated all day with not only media but concerned parents, not only from Central Texas/Georgetown but actually across the nation," said Georgetown Police Captain Roland Waits.

Waits said last year they named Bermudez officer of the year and now he's under investigation for misconduct.

"So naturally this is very alarming and concerning to us," he said.

"It wasn't like they were rowdy. They were just celebrating," said parent Lori Digesualda. "I hope that this doesn't overshadow all of the hard work and the dedication that the team, parents and coaches put in."

It was a sweet victory, turned sour. Now these parents have just one question: What was the wrong doing?

Bermudez has been with the Georgetown Police Department since 2005, and he is assigned to the Community Resources Unit. He's now on paid administrative leave.

The Georgetown Police Department Police Chief Wayne Nero issued a statement on Monday in response to the on-going internal affairs investigation:

"As would be appropriate given the circumstances, I have fielded a number of phone calls and emails regarding the recent actions of Officer Bermudez as depicted in the circulating videos. After personally watching the videos, the actions of my officer are very concerning to me as well. As the Chief of Police, it is my responsibility to ensure that this matter is investigated objectively, thoroughly, and in a timely manner without bias. We are doing just that.

I want to reassure the public that it is not the position of the Georgetown Police Department to neither condone nor tolerate misconduct of any type. This matter was immediately forwarded to the Professional Standards Division upon receiving notice of this incident. Given that we are a Civil Service agency governed by Chapter 143 of the Texas Local Government Code, there is a well-defined process for investigating and rendering disposition of internal investigations and we are following that process. Consistent with allegations of similar nature, Officer Bermudez has been placed on administrative leave with pay pending the outcome of the internal affairs investigation.

I realize there are many condemning Officer Bermudez and demanding his immediate termination. As an executive manager, it is my duty to ensure that a thorough investigation is conducted into this matter and that all of the appropriate and relevant facts are gathered so that a well-informed disciplinary decision can be rendered. I can assure you that this will take place in a timely manner. As a leader, it is my duty to support Officer Bermudez as both a human being and as a troop for which I am directly responsible. As a leader, I can support Officer Bermudez through the process of accountability without condoning or supporting his behavior – that is what leaders do. "

Special needs tot charged with resisting arrest by U.S. cops - 8-year-old had run away from school

By Donal MacIntyre

U.S. cops and the justice system are being held up to ridicule as an eight-year-old boy with severe learning difficulties has been charged by police after he ran away from his special needs school.

Police said that they chased 8-year-old Edward Hart, who had blted from the Hillside Learning and Behaviour Center in Allegan, Michigan. He then cursed and hit an officer when he tried to hand him back to his 'special needs' trained teachers.

The Allegan police force is facing public ridicule over the incident and the decision to charge the 8-year-old special needs student, with two juvenile charges which could result in juvenile detention, an institution not unlike the special needs school he currently attends.

Notwithstanding the fact that the child is learning disabled, the public prosecutor is adamant the charges will stick, despite the public outcry.

“I don’t even think he did anything wrong in this case. He’s special needs,” Robert Bluhm, Edward’s stepfather told Fox 17 news.

“He’s ran away from the school before… but he’s never made it as far as he did this time, he said.

Police said that when the child was asked his name, he cursed and assaulted armed officers.

The child was then thrown into the back of a police car and taken to the station in a move which is close to child cruelty, his stepfather said.

“He has special needs. He has anger issues. They know this, and they’re going to throw him in the back of a cop car all by himself,” Bluhm said.

The child apparently broke a $50 camera in the back of the car and has been charged specifically with malicious destruction of police property and resisting and obstructing arrest.

“If they had him under control, why didn’t they ride with him in the back of this cop car. So this incident would have never took place?”, the stepfather told Fox news.

The police force are insistent on reclaiming the cost of the camera and the prosecutor is insistent on bringing the child to court.

Police officer charged with assault on child

A Beaufort police officer will appear in court next month on a charge that he assaulted a child, authorities said.

On April 20, deputies with the Carteret County Sheriff’s Office served Capt. Robert Dunn with the arrest warrant, according to information released by the sheriff’s office Tuesday after receiving several media inquiries.

Dunn, 46, was arrested on a warrant charging him with misdemeanor assault on a child under the age of 12, the sheriff’s office said.

The warrant indicated the female child is age 10 but little other information was available.

The charge was filed at the magistrate’s office and not by the sheriff’s office.

Dunn was released on a written promise to appear in court. He court date is scheduled for May 6.

Florida Teen Wrongly Arrested In K-9 Attack, Files Lawsuit Against Orlando Police Department

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A Florida man has filed a lawsuit against the Orlando Police Department after one of its officers mistook him for a robbery suspect and was attacked by a K-9.

Isaiah Montanez, 19, was riding his bicycle on March 31, 2013 when he was dragged off his bike by Orlando Officer James Parker, who was looking for a suspect.

The cop then let his K-9 loose to take Montanez down and maul him.

“He is still very much traumatized,” Bradley Laurent, Montanez’ attorney, told WESH 2 News.

He was just riding along and all of a sudden he just gets yoked off his bicycle by a police officer and the dog is immediately released on him," Laurent told WFTV Orlando. According to a police report, Parker was searching in the same area at the time for a Hispanic robbery suspect, and he believed Montanez fit the description. Parker also saw another man, identified as Joshua Mejia, riding a bicycle with Montanez. The officer claims he ordered the duo to stop, but only Mejia listened to the command, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Montanez did not stop and “tried to pedal harder and go around me,” Parker said. That's when the officer pulled him off the bike. Montanez was charged with resisting arrest without violence, but the state attorney's office did not seek to prosecute and the case is now closed - See more at: http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/crime/florida-teen-wrongly-arrested-k-9-attack-files-lawsuit-against-orlando-police#sthash.NW8JT4kX.dpuf

SEE IT: Texas cop breaks teen's arm while trying to stop school fight

BY LEE MORAN

A Texas cop has been suspended after he was caught on camera snapping a student's arm as he broke up a school fight.

Stephen Rivers was filmed harshly grabbing the teen's limb and awkwardly slamming it forward, as a female security guard held the boy firmly on the ground.

The sound of the bone breaking can be heard in the graphic cellphone clip, recorded at West Brook High School, in Beaumont, on March 7.

The Beaumont Enterprise reports that Rivers, a part-time officer on the campus, was suspended without pay following the incident.

An investigation is due to be completed in the coming days, revealed Beaumont School District Police Chief Clydell Duncan.

The circumstances that led to the fight between the teen and another male student are currently unclear.

However, it has been reported that the pair had fought on various occasions before.

Ex-cop, son charged in slaying

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Action 7 News is learning about the arrest of a former state police officer and his son who were both arrested and charged with murder.

Jack McDowell and his son were arrested last year, but the warrant was just unsealed.

Rio Rancho police raided McDowell's home in January 2013 in connection with the murder of James Chavez, 35, who was killed a year and a half earlier.

McDowell and his son were arrested and charged, but any clues about possible motives were sealed in court documents until recently.

Our media partners at the Albuquerque Journal obtained an arrest warrant affidavit, claiming McDowell was a gun runner and meth dealer with ties to the Bandidos Motorcycle Gang.

Police said they always suspected the pair, but it took a year and a half to get enough evidence.

McDowell's defense attorney said his client is innocent. He also said the prosecution's witnesses are unreliable, and he'll try to keep some of them from testifying.

One of them, he said, has a separate case pending -- the high-speed chase that severely injured Corrales police Officer Jeremy Romero.

In the murder case, court documents said that witness and another were both hesitant to say anything for fear of retaliation.

McDowell and his son are being held on $1 million cash-only bonds in Sandoval County.

In 1984, McDowell was part of Gov. Toney Anaya's security detail while working for state polic