{"id":65450,"date":"2023-05-11T09:49:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T13:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/ex-officer-who-fired-foam-round-at-george-floyd-protest-pleads-guilty-to-using-excessive-force-65450"},"modified":"2023-05-11T09:49:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T13:49:30","slug":"ex-officer-who-fired-foam-round-at-george-floyd-protest-pleads-guilty-to-using-excessive-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/ex-officer-who-fired-foam-round-at-george-floyd-protest-pleads-guilty-to-using-excessive-force-65450","title":{"rendered":"Ex-officer who fired foam round at George Floyd protest pleads guilty to using excessive force"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A former Louisville police officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to using excessive force in an incident at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2020 Black Lives Matter protest<\/a> in the city, during which he fired a foam round into a crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Ross Wiedo, a former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/police-and-law-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Louisville Metro Police Department officer<\/a>, admitted he fired a foam round directly into a crowd of protesters and hit one protester in the face. Wiedo said he fired the round after a bottle was thrown at him from the crowd, although he was unable to identify who threw it, the Department of Justice announced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/soros-backed-st-louis-attorney-refuses-charge-cinco-de-mayo-shooting-suspect-lack-evidence-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOROS-BACKED ST. LOUIS ATTORNEY REFUSES TO CHARGE CINCO DE MAYO SHOOTING SUSPECT ON LACK OF EVIDENCE: REPORTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wiedo pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of using unreasonable force that carries a maximum fine of $100,000. The plea agreement requires him to forfeit his law enforcement certification and not to seek a new placement in the field.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place on or about May 30, 2020 amid nationwide protests after the death of George Floyd. The two officers involved with Floyd&#8217;s death in Minneapolis were sentenced to prison last year on federal charges.<\/p>\n<p>The widespread protests in the summer of 2020 led to $2 billion in property damages in a matter of weeks, according to the Insurance Information Institute.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/soros-backed-prosecutor-mired-scandal-resigns-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>SOROS-BACKED PROSECUTOR MIRED IN SCANDAL RESIGNS FROM OFFICE<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/louisville-police-officer-pleads-guilty-using-excessive-force-breonna-taylor-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katie Crews<\/a>, another former Louisville Metro Police Department officer, was sentenced in January to two years of probation for her use of excessive force in city protests on June, 1 2020. Crews was fired last year over a separate incident amid the 2020 protests where she mocked protesters on social media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ex-officer-fired-foam-round-george-floyd-protest-pleads-guilty-using-excessive-force\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ex-officer-fired-foam-round-george-floyd-protest-pleads-guilty-using-excessive-force <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Louisville police officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to using excessive force in an incident at a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in the city, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-65450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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