Former cop to stand trial after slapping Black suspect across the face and uttering the N-word
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Former cop to stand trial after slapping Black suspect across the face and uttering the N-word

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A Michigan judge has ordered a former Burton Police officer to stand trial on a charge of ethnic intimidation, ABC12 reported. Eric Freeman, 41, was charged in relation to an arrest where he called a Black man a racial slur and slapped him in the face. When the man was being apprehended by police on the scene, Freeman walked up to him and slapped the man in the face before calling him the N-word. IN OTHER NEWS: Jim Jordan subpoenas former Trump hush money payoff prosecutor who said ex-president is ‘guilty’ “Freeman came up to him and leaned down and said some things to him, one of which was, ‘You ran from the wrong individual, I’m a cop,’ and then he slapped him across the face and uttered the N-word,” Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton told TV5.

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