A San Francisco police officer was found not guilty in the 2019 beating of a man with a baton in what’s believed to be the city’s first trial against an officer over excessive force allegations while on duty.
A jury on Monday found Terrance Stangel not guilty of three charges of assault and battery he faced after striking Dacari Spiers with his baton several times, breaking his wrist and leg.The jury deadlocked on a fourth charge of unlawfully beating Spiers under color of authority.
“Five strikes when he’s lying on the ground, in the fetal position, writhing in pain, is proof beyond a reasonable doubt of assault and battery,” Young said during closing arguments in the three-week trial. “I was trying to get him to stop fighting my partner and I was trying to us get out of the situation without getting hurt,” Stangel said.
Stangel is one of six officers that have been charged by San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, a former public defender who was elected DA in 2019 as part of a national wave of progressive prosecutors opposed to mass incarceration.
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