A Boston Police captain has been suspended for 3 days after an inner investigation discovered violations linked to his conduct in two protests and the “physical contact” he made with a person who had alleged extreme drive.
A division investigation decided that Capt. John Danilecki uncared for his responsibility, used poor judgment and failed to finish required police reviews for these incidents, however didn’t use improper drive, as alleged in no less than one case.
“The commissioner has signed off on the findings and the discipline of a three-day suspension has been imposed,” Boston Police spokesperson Mariellen Burns advised the Herald in a Tuesday electronic mail.
The BPD Internal Affairs Division sustained a neglect of responsibility violation, for failing to finish a required incident report, however dismissed 5 different counts together with a use of non-lethal drive violation reported by Dorchester resident David Nave in 2019.
Nave stated Danilecki grabbed and pulled him all the way down to the bottom, and pinned him there with a knee to his chest whereas he was talking with the neighborhood “kids” who had allegedly stolen his son’s cellphone, in keeping with federal court docket paperwork.
Internal Affairs didn’t maintain one other violation charging Danilecki with untruthfulness in his police report, nor did it discover that he violated division guidelines round respectful therapy and unreasonable judgment.
Danilecki said in a police report on the time that Nave was appearing aggressively, and he had put him on the bottom for his personal security, in keeping with prior media reviews. His required reporting on the incident was incomplete, nonetheless, ensuing within the sustained violation.
“Captain Danilecki failed to complete a required department report or a FIOE report after activating himself in a fight he had observed and making physical contact with the complainant,” the Internal Affairs violation states.
The inner investigation additionally sustained two different violations linked to a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest and a 2019 “Straight Pride Parade.” Danilecki was reported to have torn up a protestor’s signal in the course of the 2020 demonstration and launched pepper spray on folks protesting the parade a 12 months earlier.
Video additionally depicts Danilecki pushing and grabbing protesters, and trying to tear the masks off of 1, on the Straight Pride Parade, in keeping with footage shared as a part of a previous Boston Globe report.
“During a protest Captain Danilecki used poor judgment when he seized and destroyed an item without inspecting its evidentiary value,” the violation states, referring to the 2020 incident. “The item was a cardboard sign belonging to one of the demonstrators and not contraband as he thought.”
For the sooner case, Danilecki “failed to complete a required FIOE report when he used force while having an interaction with the complainant who was attending the Straight Pride Parade,” the violation states.
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