A former Aurora police officer will spend six months underneath home arrest for failing to cease one other officer from pistol-whipping, choking and threatening to kill an unarmed man.
An Arapahoe County jury in April convicted Francine Martinez of failure to intervene, a misdemeanor, in connection to the 2021 beating of Kyle Vinson by fellow former Aurora police Officer John Haubert.
Martinez was the primary officer in Colorado convicted by a jury of the cost created underneath the landmark police accountability invoice handed after the 2020 George Floyd protests.
The misdemeanor carried a most sentence of 364 days in jail and a $1,000 fantastic. If Martinez violates the phrases of home arrest, she is going to serve the rest of her sentence in jail.
Haubert and Martinez have been dispatched to a trespassing name on July 23, 2021, and contacted three males. Two of the boys fled when the officers tried to arrest them on warrants, however Vinson stayed put, physique digicam footage of the incident exhibits.
Haubert drew his pistol and pointed it at Vinson, though Vinson had his fingers up and had not fled or proven any indicators of bodily resistance, in response to Haubert’s arrest affidavit.
Martinez watched over the following two minutes as Haubert pressed the muzzle of his gun into the again of Vinson’s head, choked him and struck him within the head not less than seven occasions along with his handgun. Vinson didn’t strike Haubert and was not making any life-threatening actions towards the officers, in response to the arrest affidavit.
Throughout trial, Vinson testified that he feared Haubert would kill him.
Martinez was fired from the division and Haubert resigned. Aurora metropolis leaders later paid $850,000 to settle civil claims introduced by Vinson.
Haubert in June pleaded not responsible to 6 prices — together with felony assault and menacing prices — and is scheduled for trial in November.
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