A former Warminster police officer has been arrested and charged with several counts of harassment and assault following an alleged altercation that occurred at the Warminster Police Department in early July, according to phillyburbs.com.
A preliminary hearing for Cpl. Michael Allan Schmalz, of Warrington, has been scheduled for Oct. 24 before Warrington District Judge Mark Douple. He faces one count of simple assault, one count of harassment and two counts of tampering with public records.
The alleged incident forced Warminster Police Chief Michael Murphy to remove Schmalz from the police department on Aug. 6, Phillyburbs.com reports, just months after his promotion to corporal.
According to the news report, early morning on July 6, Warrington police officers arrested and brought in 31-year-old Shaun Patrick Queeny to the Warminster Police Department for booking for disorderly conduct.
After entering the holding cell shortly after 3 a.m., Queeny began reacting violently by yelling and slapping and kicking the cell door. After Schmalz and other officers entered the room to handcuff him, Queeny then hit the door with his knee.
Phillyburbs says that video surveillance shows Schmalz and another officer allegedly removing Queeny from the cell and placing him face down on the floor. Schmalz then slapped Queeny several times on the back of the head and gave him a 10-second dose of pepper spray, according to the complaint.
Murphy told phillyburbs.com that Schmalz was placed on administrative leave after the incident and the subsequent investigation showed possible criminal behavior.
cpl. schmalz always had my respect and showed me nothing but the same. truely an officer that will be missed on the streets.
Nidal Malik Hasan has not been convicted for his murderous rampage at Ft Hood either. Do you presume him innocent as well until his trial concludes? Lastly, was the policeman's victim not entitled to due process and a presumption of innocence until his trial? If so, then why was the policeman imprisoning him for something as simple as "disorderly conduct" in the first place?
There's a moral to this story; if you always display respect for the uniform and badge, you will almost always be treated with equal respect. By the way, C. Silva, I speak with far more experience than you could ever imagine, and I always think first about anything I write.
Yeah, they should have tased him in the balls. You should respect your police. Hope they give him his job back that he has been so good at for so long...
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