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Jason Lawton may also face criminal charges for the beating which took place when he was a St. Albans police officer.
A sadistic sergeant from a Vermont police department was fired for punching a handcuffed woman in the face who had kicked a cell door while he was having dinner inside a police station.
St. Albans Police Sergeant Jason Lawton claimed the woman had kicked him in the shin which led to him charging her with assault but body cam video shows he was the one who assaulted her by shoving her against the wall with his forearm after she stood up in her cell with her hands cuffed behind her back.
“Don’t come at me like that,” he tells her, trying to come across as a victim.
“How fucking dare you!” responds Amy Connelly, 35, who had been arrested for disorderly conduct and criminal mischief for her drunken behavior at a local bar.
“He has hurt me!” Connelly tells another cop.
“Shut up,” Lawton yells.
The handcuffed woman then stands up in her cell again, this time appearing to lift her leg, which is when Lawton shoves her against the wall, then punches her in the face.
“Don’t fucking kick me!” he tells her after he has thrown her to the floor.
He then begins addressing her in that condescending tone cops take when they believe they are in full control.
“Now you’re going to get an assault charge and now you’re going to go to jail,” he says.
“Oh my God, you guys … You guys are brutes!” Connelly stammers through tears.
“Yup, sure. You just tried to take me,” Lawton responds.
And that’s normally all a cop has to say to be granted the power to beat and kill and file false charges against a person.
But now that the video has surfaced thanks to the ACLU, Lawton may wind up with criminal charges for his actions
