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From [HERE ] Federal prosecutors say they plan to retry a white Fresno police sergeant and three former white officers on brutality and obstruction of justice charges in the brutal beating case of Rolando Celdon. While on the ground he was punched, kicked, bit by a police dog, shot with a stun gun and blasted several times with a bean-bag shotgun in October 2005. Celdon was shot in the testicles by the white cops at close range. He was unarmed. He did not testify as he was deported as a result of the underlying criminal case.
A federal jury was pronounced hung in the case last month. The jury was mostly white - as it appeared to have only one non-white person on it. [MORE ] In the video below a white juror complains that a new trial is an unnecessary use of taxpayer dollars. To the contrary, white supremacy is a colossal waste of money, resources & life.
Prosecutors say Officers Manfredi and Plymale concealed the excessive force used on Rolando Celdon by Officers Coleman and Van Dalen. All four officers were also charged with falsifying a report.
Both sides agreed that during the early hours of Oct. 10, 2005, Celdon broke into his girlfriend's southeast Fresno apartment, threatened her life and hit her in front of her young son. Celdon left before police arrived. A short time later, Plymale and his police dog, Tymo, confronted Celdon a few blocks from the girlfriend's home.
Hardin testified he rolled up to the scene shortly after 2 a.m. and saw Plymale standing on the opposite side of a 6-foot fence topped with barbed wire checking Tymo for injuries -- 5 to 10 feet from Celdon who was lying in the dirt in pain from being bitten.
Hardin said he didn't know at the time that Tymo had clamped onto Celdon's ankle and that Celdon had taken the 70-pound dog over the fence. Hardin said he noticed Coleman holding a shotgun that fires beanbags filled with pellets. He said he saw three or four spent shell casings on the ground and Van Overbeek standing next to Coleman.