Director Lee Schmidt of the city’s public safety department said Wednesday afternoon that three other officers will retain their jobs.
He declined to release names of officers or details of the investigation per the collective bargaining agreement that affords each officer the opportunity to use arbitration to challenge the discipline imposed.
All eight officers were suspended with pay and faced disciplinary hearings after the death of 54-year-old Jim Rogers the day after police used a stun gun on him multiple times in October in the Bloomfield neighborhood. The medical examiner in January ruled the death accidental and resulting from a lack of oxygen to the brain.
Mayor Ed Gainey said Rogers “deserved to live a life of joy; he deserved to live a long one. And he didn’t deserve to lose his life at the hands of police officers.” “What his life could have been will stay with me as long as I am the mayor of this city,” Gainey said, calling the death “a historic reminder of the work we have in front of us to make our city the safest city in America.”
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