Police Shootings / Possible Abuse Threads [merged]

A former police officer has been accused of abusing his power in order to detain eight men and sexually assault them.

Marcellis Blackwell, 34, an officer who used to work for North County Police Cooperative in Missouri, was indicted on 21 federal charges on 27 September for the alleged sexual assaults between November 2022 and June 2023.

Sixteen of those counts are for deprivation of rights under the colour of law, meaning he willingly deprived a person of rights over their body.


The five other counts accuse him of altering records in a federal investigation.

The St Louis-based officer allegedly kidnapped the eight men on separate occasions and turned off his body camera before “fondling their genitals” - sometimes when they were handcuffed, a statement from the Eastern District of Missouri Attorney’s Office read.

Alongside this sexual abuse, he also allegedly sodomised one man with his finger.

A motion seeking to keep Mr Blackwell in jail until his trial said he “victimised people he thought would be less likely to report his behaviour.”…….

https://www.the-independent.com/new...well-missouri-officer-sex-abuse-b2422470.html