Grand Jury indicts Lincoln officer in brutality case
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Providence County Grand Jury on Friday indicted a Lincoln police officer on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon — his foot — after he allegedly kicked a woman in the face.
Michael J. Healey, spokesman for Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch, said the woman was seated on a curb with her hands cuffed behind her back at the time. He said she had been taken into custody on a charge of disorderly conduct in a bar at Twin River Casino on May 31.
According to a news release issued by the Lincoln police, Krawetz was suspended without pay and he has not returned to duty since then.
Rhode Island State Police spokesman David Neill tells The Associated Press that a videotape shows Krawetz kicking the handcuffed woman as the two waited outside the Twin River gambling parlor, just north of Providence, for a patrol car to arrive.
Krawetz is the second Rhode Island officer to be charged in an alleged beating in the past two weeks.