Caught-On-Camera: Phoenix New Times Investigative Reporter Ray Stern: Public Outrage Here In Mesa

Besides the official investigations of the incidents, which are being handled by the Scottsdale police department, Mesa is contracting with the national Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) to review use-of-force incidents of the past three years. The city's new Chief of Police is also hiring former Maricopa County Rick Romley to help review the two latest video-recorded incidents                 

Mesa Police in Crisis After Another Video Showing Cops Abusing Suspects Surfaces

Ray Stern | June 8, 2018 | 3:58pm

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Police also released the names of the five officers on leave from the May 23 incident. They are:
• Jhonte Jones
• Rudy Monarrez
• Ernesto Calderon
• Robert Gambee
• William Abbiatti
The latest crisis comes several months after a jury acquitted former Mesa officer Phillip "Mitch" Brailsford of a murder charge, following his shooting death of an unarmed suspect in 2016.

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Ray Stern has worked as a newspaper reporter in Arizona for more than two decades. He's won many awards for his reporting, including the Arizona Press Club's Don Bolles Award for Investigative Journalism

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