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DA: No basis for charges against cop who put knee on head

by Associated Press
| July 17, 2020 1:06 PM

A Pennsylvania police officer was justified when he pressed his knee into an intoxicated man’s head while restraining him outside a hospital, a prosecutor said Friday after reviewing an incident that was caught on video and generated allegations of police brutality.

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