From [HERE] Police Officer Evan Cossette is expected to plead not guilty to police brutality and obstruction of justice charges when he appears today before a federal court magistrate in New Haven, his lawyer said Monday.

Cossette was indicted last week by a federal grand jury on a charge of police brutality following an investigation into a 2010 incident in which he shoved a handcuffed Latino prisoner into a jail cell, cracking the his skull. The criminal investigation of Evan Cossette, the son of Police Chief Jeffry Cossette, started after the videotape of the jail cell incident surfaced and two officers, Brian Sullivan and Donald Huston, complained to city officials that Evan Cossette had received favorable treatment because he is the chief's son.

Cossette was also charged with obstruction of justice for filing a false report of the incident.

The videotape shows Cossette pushing the handcuffed prisoner, Pedro Temich, backward into the jail cell, causing Temich to cut open his head on a concrete bench. The indictment calls it a "firm shove" of the "compliant and handcuffed" Temich, causing him to fall back.