LAPD officer gets 36 months in jail in assault caught on video

Los Angeles Times | July 23, 2015 | 10:31 AM

A Los Angeles police officer today was sentenced to 36 months in jail for assaulting a South L.A. woman in an incident that was caught on video by a police cruiser camera.
A jury convicted Mary O'Callaghan, 50, last month after a prosecutor argued that the video showed the officer used unnecessary force during the 2012 arrest of Alesia Thomas.
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