Two Baltimore police officers accused of forcing a black homicide detective to look at racist material on the Internet could be suspended without pay and have letters of reprimand placed in their permanent files, city police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said yesterday.
The officers, Lt. James W. Hagin Jr. and Detective Paul A. Kidd, can accept the discipline or fight the charges at a departmental hearing called a trial board.
In a complaint filed in March last year, Hagin is alleged to have ordered Sgt. Kelvin Sewell to view a Ku Klux Klan Web site. Guglielmi listed the administrative charges against Hagin as neglect of duty, bringing disrespect to the department and conduct unbecoming an officer related to inappropriate use of a police computer.
It is alleged that Kidd tampered with the computer by removing the hard drive. Guglielmi said the charge against him was neglect of duty.
The local chapter of the NAACP had pressured the Police Department to move forward on the case; the head of the police union backed the officers and said the police commissioner shouldn't be influenced by "outside groups and sources."
A third officer - Charles Bealefeld, the brother of Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III - was also found to have given a false report in the case. However, he has since joined the Annapolis Police Department. Baltimore police do not typically attempt to bring charges against former employees.
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kidd has also allegedly destroyed evidence in a recent case, to ensure the outcome in the states favor. He coerced 2 teens into a room did not read them their Miranda rights and demanded sworn recorded statements from both parties by claiming quote "I could arrest you right now, throw you into central booking... let's see how you fair there" sgt. Paul Kidd had no instructions for the first. However sgt. Paul Kidd does not play good cop, bad cop. Make no mistake he is what has come to be Known as a terrorist detective. Not to mention the fact that he exhibits sadistic tendencies consistent with a sociopath type 1 Cluster B. personality disorder he is the farthest police officer from protecting and serving the public that one can possibly go.. So should he be a sgt. The or even allowed with the general public? I mull that one over for a while.
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