Former Lawrence Police Captain Michael Mangan faces federal expenses associated to alleged extreme power in opposition to a person arrested for a noise grievance in 2023.
Mangan faces two counts every of deprivation of rights below coloration of regulation and false report. Mangan pleaded not responsible to the costs at an preliminary look at federal court docket in Boston Wednesday.
The indictment filed Tuesday doesn’t include many particulars of the alleged incident spurring the costs, besides that on March 10, 2023, Mangan “assaulted arrestee Victim 1, willfully depriving Victim 1 of the right … to be free from the use of unreasonable force by a law enforcement officer.”
Mangan filed two reviews relating to the incident which prosecutors accuse him of falsifying.
In every, he described the arrestee’s conduct through the reserving course of “assaultive,” thus justifying a forceful response. Within the supplementary report, Mangan alleged the arrestee “slightly turned and bladed his body toward” him “and simultaneously threw his right arm and outstretched hand at a high rate of speed toward [Mangan’s] face with his fingers in a grabbing motion.” Mangan wrote that he responded with “a straight arm take down.”
The indictment returned by the federal grand jury is skeletal in particulars, however extra info is discovered within the federal civil rights lawsuit filed by Sodiq Folarin Amusat, the 29-year-old Black man Mangan is accused of assaulting, in opposition to Mangan and town of Lawrence.
Within the grievance, Amusat states that he was arrested on March 10, 2023, after a neighbor had complained in regards to the quantity of the music in his condo. His encounter with Mangan occurred at roughly 3 a.m., the grievance states.
“During the booking process, Mangan, a white Captain of the Lawrence Police Department, suddenly and without warning, viciously ‘clotheslined’ Mr. Amusat,” the grievance states. “Mangan’s unprovoked attack drove Mr. Amusat’s head into a metal door and onto the concrete floor.”
Mangan “needlessly tackled, forcibly pressed onto the ground and handcuffed” Amusat, in response to the grievance, all of which was “captured on a surveillance video recording.”
Amusat’s grievance states that he made no aggressive actions towards Mangan however as a substitute “did not physically resist the police officers, did not attempt to flee and did not verbally threaten the officers.”
The grievance incorporates stills from the surveillance video footage of the encounter and purports to point out that Amusat was truly talking with the opposite officer when “suddenly and without warning,” Mangan lunged and stiff-armed Amusat, wrapped his proper arm round him and positioned his proper leg behind Amusat’s legs — a “clothesline” maneuver — forcing the arrestee to the bottom, and hanging his head in opposition to the wall and floor.
Justice of the Peace Decide Donald L. Cabell on Wednesday launched Mangan below customary launch situations as a result of the prosecution didn’t search detainment, in response to clerk notes. Mangan has secured non-public counsel which can file an look later, in response to a public defender on the arraignment. An preliminary standing convention is ready for Dec. 17.
