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The Sun reported that officer Vincent Cosom was suspended
from the police force after the video, which shows him
repeatedly punching Kollin Truss in the face last June, was made
public.
Shaun Owens, Cosom's attorney, could not be immediately reached,
but he told the Sun that Cosom's behavior was "quite simply a
lapse in judgment".
A lawsuit that Truss filed against Cosom is pending.
The sentence comes just weeks after protests in Baltimore over
the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray from spinal injuries
suffered in police custody were punctuated by a day of looting
and arson.
Gray's death became a flashpoint in the continuing national
outcry over police treatment of black people and other minority
groups that has been fueled by a string of police killings of
unarmed black men in cities such as Ferguson, Missouri, New York
City, and North Charleston, South Carolina over the past year.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by
Richard Borsuk)
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