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When Val Demings Stood by Police Officers Accused of Excessive Force
But a POLITICO review of police data, court documents and interviews with those who dealt with Demings as police chief revealed widespread dissatisfaction with her responses to incidents of brutality during her four-year tenure, from 2007 to 2011, and earlier a brief stint as a deputy chief overseeing the department’s patrol bureau, a position she was appointed to in 2006.
From 2009 to 2010—the final two full calendar years of her tenure as chief—the department reported 1,205 instances of officer use of force, an annual average of 602. That dropped to an average of 578 in the six years after her departure, a number that includes the last four months of Demings’ tenure before she retired in May 2011. Of the use-of-force incidents reported during Demings’ final two years, 54 percent involved black offenders, a number that dropped to 40 percent in the six years after Demings’ departure. The department’s online data includes only statistics going back to 2009.
Among the earlier cases was that of Jessica Asprilla, a 27-year-old woman who in 2007 was allegedly pushed down a flight of stairs by an Orlando police officer named Fernando Trinidad, while he worked an after-hours detail at an Orlando nightspot called Club Paris. Asprilla was initially charged with battery for allegedly spitting on the officer and then falling down the stairs, and the department stood by him, even though a surveillance video in its possession allegedly showed Trinidad pushing her down the stairs.
Asprilla was eventually cleared and the charges against her dropped, and a court ordered Trinidad to pay her medical expenses. The Orlando police gave Trinidad a 16-hour suspension and loss of two vacation days for falsifying his report of the incident. But even that slap on the wrist was reduced when Demings, as deputy chief and three months away from getting the top job, signed off on a memo lessening his punishment.