The actions of a Meridian police officer caught on video require consequences, and the city of Meridian and its Police Department owe the public transparency and accountability.
As the Idaho Statesman’s Rose Evans reported last week, a Meridian police officer threw a young man to the ground with little warning and then kneeled on his neck, a practice that “is not a taught nor sanctioned use-of-force technique” in the Treasure Valley, according to Gary Raney, who was Ada County sheriff for 10 years and who now consults on criminal justice practices.
The incident occurred after a teenager lost control of his dirt bike in a residential neighborhood, crashed in someone’s front yard, then slammed himself into a parked car in a driveway…