Ex-Indiana cop gets 15 months for punching handcuffed man
HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — A former northern Indiana police officer who was caught on video repeatedly punching a handcuffed man in 2018 has been sentenc...
HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — A former northern Indiana police officer who was caught on video repeatedly punching a handcuffed man in 2018 has been sentenced to 15 months in prison. Cory Newland, a former Elkhart police officer, was sentenced Friday for his role in the beating. He had pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Hammond to a federal charge of deprivation of civil rights and aiding and abetting, according to court records. Surveillance video showed Newland and another officer, Joshua Titus, punching the handcuffed suspect after the man spit on one of them at the Elkhart police station in January 2018.