The jury offers a verdict divided into the Rollercoaster Police Brutality process of the former Antioch K9 officer

Oakland-a jury condemned the former Antioch Police Officer, Mortiza Amiri, for deprived a person of civil rights and falsifying reports, but paid by the remaining accusations, including conspiracy with other policemen to commit violence.

The jury’s verdict succeeded on Friday a trial that saw Amiri’s colleagues – including a former close friend who has already been guilty for many of the same accusations – confesses against him, describing in detail one of the biggest police scandals that hit the Golf area in decades.

The rollercoaster of a process has reached its end in the most tumultuous way. The civil servant read aloud a verdict of guilt for the number one, instantly changing the mood of the court. But as quickly, the head of the jury spoke, announcing that this was a mistake and that they did not condemn the prunings for conspiracy.

The jurors returned to their room of deliberations, while Amiri removed a small smile, adding even more drama and suspense at the moment. They returned with a verdict form corrected a few minutes later. Then the judge voted the jury after reading the verdict, only to make sure.

With each verdict who is not guilty, his supporters have left sighs of relief. He shook his head to the jury after finding out that he would not come from the process.

Amiri was found guilty of conspiracy and two accusations to deprive a person’s rights, but he was found guilty that he illegally stopped a man while he took his roommate – a former policeman from Antioch and Pittsburg, who testified against Amiri – on a radialong.

The tax for deprivation of civil rights was supported by the testimony of the former amiri Robuler, Timothy Manly-Williams, whose lawyer mentioned the “worst witness” in the whole process. Manly-Williams, who pleaded guilty of accusations of unrelated crime, confessed that Amiri said he wanted to “go into something” that night, then seemed to start a man on a bicycle for no reason, before calling Manly-Williams to open the door of the vehicle, and to release the fur ”.

The jury reached its verdict on the third day of deliberations, most was one Thursday – the National Veterans Day.

Admirals faced five charges of crimes: three actions depravity of civil rights under the color of the right, as well as a number of conspiracy against rights and a number of destruction, modification and falsification of records in the federal investigation.

The process could be good news for Amiri’s remaining co-insult, Devon Wenger, who is also accused of conspiracy. But, unlike amiri-which, he has established records at the Antioch police department with dozens of K9-Wenger bite is facing a single additional fee, related to the use of a less lethal launcher on a single person.

The decision of the jury ends a process of almost two weeks centered on the narratives of the duel: amiri was a racist policeman who used his police dog to hunt for sports residents, or was he just the victim of false witnesses and “cherry” text messages meant to paint him in a bad light?

To solve this problem, the jurors watched as a parade of current and former police officers – including former colleagues of Amiri from Antioch – confessed to dozens of times in which Amiri took the dog, Purcy, people, many of them black.

From the first time he called Purcy in action, Amiri seemed to enjoy the violence and Gore everyone, the prosecutors said. In the texts read in front of the jury, Amiri offered a steak with Mignon thread to anyone who could help him get that first “bite”. And when in the end he threw someone on the German shepherd, the dog initially seemed reluctant to bite the man -causing the amirs to repeatedly force the dog until his jaws caught on him, according to the court testimony.

“He was eager to take his dog who has not received a bite yet,” said US assistant lawyer Eric Cheng. “He wanted to bite badly.”

Three of the accusations claimed that amiri – sometimes flanked by Purcy – was missing the rights of residents while working as a police officer.

In a case, amiri would have joked about having a “weak ass” to use a man in a man in July 2019, sending someone later that he threw his report on the incident “so I don’t go to court for the bite”, according to the testimony to the trial.

This incident determined the federal prosecutors to submit another charge of the crime – this time, claiming that he falsified the registrations – after the prosecutors stated that Amiri did not mention another officer on the spot in his initial written report.

The following year, in August 2020, federal prosecutors say that they released the dog on a man who seemed to sleep in a homeless camp tent. After that, Amiri sent another officer that “I left the tent and planned the game how to do it. He returned and did justice ”, according to the judicial testimony.

A few months later, Amiri would have sent a text that took a reward for a man who suspected to steal the mail and open fake accounts on his behalf. Prosecutors claimed that he led to a confrontation with the man, in which Amiri threatened that “if you stole again through E -Email, I will kill you.”

The prosecutors bent a lot on a graphic, racial text, between the admirations and a lot of other officers from all over the east-many bay, glorifying those hunting for “bite” and bloody bodies left behind. In them, amiri and his colleagues named the black residents “Gorillas”, while they asked to hold the rooms worn by the stopped body, so that their actions would pass unobserved.

“Despite the fact that they admitted that they were useless uses of force, what did they say about it? “This – it’s fun,” the US assistant lawyer said on Wednesday, citing one of his texts during the closing arguments on Wednesday.

The prosecutors came across those texts with the words of his colleagues – the most devastating of them coming from Eric Rombough, a close friend who previously was guilty of many similar charges. In a sober, measured tone, Rombough gave an unwavering account of their plan to “dehumanize” people, all for exactly a “feeling of punishment” on a city they considered to be lacking in law.

Other officers proved to be more difficult when they were called to prosecutors. At least a few have given testimony that came into conflict with their prior statements to investigators or big jurors – often in ways that have appeared to minimize his actions. A Lieutenant Oakley, for example, said that amiri exempted his dog asleep in August 2020, while 20 meters outside his tent, as opposed to as he was inside.

Before the jury began to deliberation, Amiri’s lawyer pleaded with the jury to “slow down or stop that escaped freight train known as the government.” The texts, he said, represented a mere “dark humor” and “a common human function to cope” with a difficult job.

“They are not accurate, they are not factual, they are not any admission,” said the lawyer, Paul Goyotte, during the closing arguments on Wednesday. He stressed that Amiri’s actions were due to the culture of the police department, “about which, as we talked about us, was a product of that city and a product of that environment in which it is.”

Goyette has repeatedly settled in almost all the witnesses of the prosecutors, calling Rombough a “bad policeman” who had “a major, full-speed, on syntheroids, to throw the Mr. Amiri under the bus here.” When he refers to several men who told on the witness stand being bitten by his dog, Goyotte repeated the same line: “He lied to you.”

Amiri started the trial with another Antioch officer, Wenger, who faced a similar conspiracy accusation, as well as a number of the use of excessive force. However, he ended it alone, after US district judge Jeffrey White stated a myistial last week Against the background of concerns about his lawyer’s ability to represent him adequately.

A new trial date for these charges has not yet been established. Wenger – who spent his time recently mocking federal prosecutors who supervise his case – It is also stipulated to face next month on steroid distribution fees.

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Originally published: March 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM PDT