{"id":2347,"date":"2012-08-19T11:01:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T15:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2012-08-19T11:01:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T15:01:06","slug":"pensacola-officer-arrested-for-battering-dui-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=2347","title":{"rendered":"Pensacola Officer Arrested for Battering DUI Suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W5T1Z9SUxOA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Pensacola Police Department fired K9 Officer Christopher Geraci for excessive force on Friday, then arrested him for misdemeanor battery in connection with his hit and run\/DUI investigation on August 2.<\/p>\n<p>Suspect Abbi Bonds struck several cars with her late model Chevy Camaro at 2:30 in the morning.\u00a0 Her vehicle was disabled with heavy damage and pulled to the side of the road several blocks from the crash scene when Geraci found her.<\/p>\n<p>After Geraci orders her back into her car several times, she refuses while continuing to talk on her cell phone.\u00a0 He attempts to handcuff her.\u00a0 As he does so, he tries to rotate her against her car.\u00a0 Her head and upper body carom off the Camaro.\u00a0 He again tries to brace her up against the car.\u00a0 Geraci then completes handcuffing her.<\/p>\n<p>Though Bonds did not file a complaint, the department said that the officer&#8217;s dashcam recording of the incident was found during a &#8220;routine review of video footage&#8221; and an IA<!--more--> investigation was initiated.\u00a0 She was not seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>Pensacola Chief Chip Simmons said Geraci used unreasonable force.\u00a0 A press release quoted the chief saying, &#8220;This type of behavior is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I can attest from personal experience that patience is sometimes overrun by frustration.\u00a0 Better judgment and suspect control in this case may have led to a different outcome.<\/p>\n<p>Randall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pensacola Police Department fired K9 Officer Christopher Geraci for excessive force on Friday, then arrested him for misdemeanor battery in connection with his hit and run\/DUI investigation on August 2. Suspect Abbi Bonds struck several cars with her late model Chevy Camaro at 2:30 in the morning.\u00a0 Her vehicle was disabled with heavy damage and pulled to the side of the road several blocks from the crash scene when Geraci found her. After Geraci orders her back into her car several times, she refuses while continuing to talk on her cell phone.\u00a0 He attempts to handcuff her.\u00a0 As he does so, he tries to rotate her against her car.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=2347\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,349,10],"tags":[453,454,452,451],"class_list":["post-2347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","category-politics","category-street","tag-abbi-bonds","tag-excessive-force","tag-ofc-chris-geraci","tag-pensacola-police"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28xkp-BR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}