Aurora police sergeant on leave after verbal tirade against 17-year-old: “I’ll make your life a living (expletive) hell”
"You think I'm out here playing (expletive) games?" Sgt. Ed Acuti yelled in the body-camera video. "You're out of your (expletive) mind!"
An Aurora constabulary sergeant remains connected administrative permission aft unleashing a profane verbal tirade astatine a 17-year-old miss during a postulation halt successful June.
Body camera video posted to the department’s YouTube channel Wednesday shows the officer, identified by constabulary arsenic Sgt. Ed Acuti, directing a drawstring of profanities astatine the teen aft pulling her implicit June 29 for speeding adjacent the intersection of East 2nd Street and North Airport Boulevard.
“You deliberation I’m retired present playing (expletive) games?” Acuti yelled, according to the footage from his assemblage camera. “You’re retired of your (expletive) mind!”
The teen, who is not identified, tin beryllium heard shouting astatine the officers — “Y’all termination people!” and “I’m 17, tin you delight telephone my mom?” — arsenic they effort and get her to calm down.
“You amended support your (expletive) rima shut!” Acuti tells the teen successful the video. “I’ll marque your beingness a surviving (expletive) hellhole from this time guardant … I don’t springiness a (expletive) however aged you are. Let that descend in!”
In a connection Thursday, a constabulary spokesperson said Acuti’s behaviour was “not accordant with the grooming oregon expectations of an Aurora constabulary officer.”
After viewing the footage, Aurora constabulary Chief Vanessa Wilson “was profoundly acrophobic by what she saw,” constabulary said successful the statement, and ordered an probe into the incidental and placed Acuti connected administrative leave.
The department’s interior affairs squad is finalizing the probe into alleged unprofessional behaviour by a supervisor, the connection said. A summary of the findings volition beryllium disposable upon completion.
“In each interaction, we indispensable strive to dainty individuals with respect and stay professional,” Wilson said successful the statement. “I commend the officers that are unwilling to compromise their integrity and proceed to study misconduct that jeopardizes the enactment we, arsenic an agency, are trying to execute with our community.”
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