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“The only time head strikes are permissible is when you are in extreme self-defense. Rolling around and being a pain in the butt doesn’t qualify.”

— Dennis Kenney, a former police officer and professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, on a Maine State Police trooper repeatedly punching a pinned, handcuffed man in the face while arresting him at his home in rural York County last year.

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Last year, a Maine state trooper repeatedly punched a handcuffed man while arresting him at his home . But the state police cleared the officer of any wrongdoing and misrepresented what happ

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