She was handcuffed behind her back. I'm no expert but her injuries seem consistent with faceplanting.

Gets off chair, falls over splat on face, ensuing injuries.

Just sayin...

Everyone likes their protections in court until the "bad guy" gets it. They screwed up, no matter what you think he did. Everyone cries "technicality", but that's not abuse of the system, it's the sloppiness of the prosecution. If we didn't have our rights guaranteed to us in the court system, then all our trials would be farces. They guarantee fairness and place the proper burden of proof on the prosecution. It seems to me that the police Bill of Rights does the same, but of course, guarding their hearings.

Could be, but he turned the tape off, didn't he? I realize his side has been claiming that's departmental procedure once a suspect has refused to cooperate, but that's a policy that makes little sense, and seems more like one that's held in place to allow misbehavior.

What, was he saving his department the physical cost of videotape? I believe in the idea of discretion granted to law enforcement, and judges in doing their jobs.

But this has just looked terrible. Not saying it couldn't have happened according to his account, but if so, I think a reasonable person would expect his defense to be mounted upon something other than their claims that, to paraphrase, amount to "We thought she was drunk," "She was acting all crazy," and "I turned the video feed off because I was required to."

Why install video surveillance in a police station to be controlled only by the officers, who are also subject to the law? His own boss is decrying this finding which, ironically is based on the (absent) results of a freakin' polygraph, a long-controverted evidentiary measure, even if you have the results.

My guess is we'll be hearing more about this.

The nose should be severely damaged as well, and the eyes less so.
Even so, turning the camera off is not a very smart thing to do.

Oh, I think the camera was turned off for a reason and I don't think it should have been.

He made a conscious effort to turn it off which leaves me wondering why that was a priority for him?

I mean, if she really did just fall, it would be there on tape and we wouldn't really have a story.

Sadly, after being involved in police domestic violence thru RL, websites and mentoring, none of this really suprises me.

I hate how trials boil down to technicalities like this. If he turned off the camera and she was injured, make a decision based on the facts. To throw it out because of the polygraph and then claim 'his rights were violated'? Take a look at her face and tell me that's not violated. What ever happened to being am honest, decent person?

This story makes me want to vomit. Absolutely disgusting. How horrifying would it be to have your hands tied and put in a room where no one will ever know what happens to you? I'm on the verge of an anxiety attack just thinking about it.

"Police administrators decided not to file charges against the officer saying: 'no one knows for sure what happened'".

...erm, I think it's pretty obvious what happened. You can see evidence all over her face.

I wonder, is that how men treat women in the west?

It should be mandatory that they change the policy to require that the camera is rolling at all times when a suspect is in that room. I would demand proof that this was policy before he entered that room, and I would review the tapes of uncooperative and cooperative suspects, informing the chief of police that such a policy could be construed as indicative of systematic brutality, and thus would bring the entire police force under scrutiny.

So his rights were violated because the polygraph wasn't recorded, but her rights weren't violated even though the "accident" wasn't recorded.

The police chief is not happy about this guy being reinstated so that tells me this is BS.

Since when are polygraph reports legitimate evidence anyway? Penn & Teller did a whole episode about why they are bulls**t, you can fool it into thinking you are lying simply by flexing your sphincter.