FBI investigation into alleged police brutality of Esteban Carpio completed

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FBI dismisses claim of police brutality in detective shooting

By Richard C. Lewis, Associated Press Writer | May 24, 2005

PROVIDENCE, R.I. --An FBI-led investigation concluded that authorities
did not use excessive force in their handling of Esteban Carpio, who is
accused of killing a detective with his own service weapon at police
headquarters.

After he appeared in court badly bruised and swollen, blood oozing from
the plastic spit shield he was wearing, Carpio's family complained that
the 26-year-old was a victim of police brutality.

But Boston FBI Special Agent in Charge Kenneth Kaiser said Tuesday that
a monthlong review of the department's handling of the case, including
interviews with more than a dozen civilian witnesses, found no civil
rights violations.

"If he's fighting police officers, the officers have a right to use
whatever means necessary to subdue the suspect," Kaiser said in a news
conference with local and state police. "From personal experience, I
think the police officers and correctional officers used amazing
restraint with Mr. Carpio."

The FBI report has been given to the U.S. Department of Justice's civil
rights division for review. A panel led by the FBI and including members
of the state and Providence police conducted the probe.

Clifford Montiero, head of the Providence chapter of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- whose New England
chapter requested the probe -- called the findings a "logical and
rational conclusion."

Montiero, a former Providence policeman, said the arresting officers
could have used deadly force, since Carpio's crime was a felony.

"This was no walk in the park. This was a tough arrest," he said.

The Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said it
believes investigators addressed the group's concerns, but wanted to see
the report to judge whether the investigation was thorough.

Law enforcement officials had said Carpio hurt himself jumping from a
third-story window and struggling with officers after he fatally shot
Detective Sgt. James Allen with the detective's weapon while Allen was
interviewing Carpio at police headquarters on April 17.

The FBI said blood and skin were found on the shattered glass. Two
witnesses told investigators they saw Carpio hanging from the window,
fall to the road, get up and run away. Carpio told authorities he fell
on his face when he jumped out the window, Kaiser said.

Five officers converged on Carpio on a downtown street, sparking a
violent struggle as the officers tried to subdue Carpio and handcuff
him. Kaiser said officers punched Carpio several times, including once
in the face. He said the suspect punched, kicked and at one point lodged
his hand under his stomach to avoid being handcuffed.

"There were certainly injuries that occurred during that 10-minute
struggle," Kaiser said.

The officers did not use night sticks or any other weapons during the
arrest, authorities said. Police Chief Dean Esserman said officers did
not draw their guns.

"It doesn't matter that a police officer had died," Kaiser said. "It
matters that they used appropriate force to subdue a suspect in any
situation, period."

"Once they put handcuffs on him, they didn't touch him again," Kaiser added.

The FBI found no video from any businesses in the arrest area, Kaiser said.

A woman who called a cab for Carpio during his escape told investigators
Carpio was bleeding from his hand and face and that his forehead was dented.

Carpio was taken to Rhode Island Hospital, then returned to Providence
police headquarters, where he was put in a holding cell with rubber
walls. He began banging his head against the walls, Kaiser said.

Carpio was turned over to the state Department of Corrections on Sunday
afternoon. He told guards he may be infected with a disease, and wrote
about the disease in blood on a wall, Kaiser said.

Some officers have taken medication because Carpio said he may be infected.

When Carpio appeared in court the next day, badly bruised and bleeding,
his family accused police of using excessive force. Questions poured in
to the local branch of the NAACP, which called on the FBI to investigate.

Carpio and his family declined to talk directly with investigators,
instead referring questions to their lawyers. And the FBI was not given
access to his medical records, Kaiser said.

Carpio's attorney did not immediately return a phone message.

Esserman said he was satisfied with the findings and that all officers
cooperated in the investigation.

Authorities released three pictures of Carpio, from about 8:15 a.m. when
he was brought back from the hospital, from 1:00 p.m. when he was
leaving the holding cell at the police station and transferred to
Corrections officials, and at 1:45 p.m., before he entered the Adult
Correctional Institutions. The photos showed Carpio with stitches on his
head, cuts on his face, and his left eye swollen shut.

[Thomas Reynolds]

My God, how disappointing for the liberals :-)
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> My God, how disappointing for the liberals :-)

It is kind of surprising how simply the report was received by the
NAACP...
The ACLU? They of course(2 years out of law school most investigators
and 1/2 not even passed the bar) want to examine the procedures
involved in the investigation(by veteran FBI investigators{all lawyers
as well as LEOs}), to ensure the process was adequate. Gee, I wonder
which will receive the most attn by the media...the detailed and
competent investigation by experienced professionals, or the review of
reports by inexperienced non-professionals with questionable legal
knowledge with a political agenda...<G>

[Thomas Reynolds]

ACLU equals Pla with a law degree....
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No one contemplates the fact that the so-called professionals aren't professional at all and the fact that the FBI came back and said that Summary punishment was ok if the crime is bad enough. These are trouble making comments and the fbi knows it and then they play the so-called professional card and innocent party the same as the police do when saying that this man was being questioned for stabbing an elderly person. Well, the fact is that this fact has no business being even said within a situation like this. It was completely irrelevant and i highly doubt it was true anyways. I think the police office was shot because he was doing something wrong. This whole story doesn't ring true. No cop should have his gun in a situation like that anyways. It gets locked up when entering the building. And one must know that the guy who was beat up was never charged with stabbing the elderly woman so the police were wrong for having even been questioning him in the first place. I question the motives of the police with all situations because i know that they are corrupted just like the fbi is so this gives me a inside perspective about who they really are and what they are capable of getting away with. They all do it and they are all corrupted and lying to the people about the facts on almost all situations. I know this to be true because of what they did in several situations with me and with my calls to the proper authorities who did not act proper at all. And this goes all the way up to the very top with the inspector Generals office and Internal affairs.

I will repeat once again...there is no legitimacy to the things that comes out of the police and fbi's statements. They are proven liars and proven murderers. They are proven manipulators of the courts and the legal process and they should not be allowed out of a cage themselves less they harm anymore of our country men and women who they are abusing for their own financial gains. And yet the judges in the courts have offered them a special standing when no special standing is deserved at all except to be treated in the same manner they are treating others.