By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News
(CHICAGO) A former Chicago police officer was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison for a 2012 videotaped beating of a convenience store clerk.
Aldo Brown was found guilty in October of one count of using excessive force. He was acquitted of two counts of filing a false police report.
Brown testified in court that he and his partner were conducting an investigation about illegal drug sales at the store when he claimed he saw a handgun in the clerk’s pocket. He ordered the man to put his hands up and fearing for his life, Brown said he tried to take down the man.
But federal prosecutors claimed Brown didn’t know the victim had a handgun before the beating, arguing that it was only after the victim was in handcuffs that Brown found a gun.
Surveillance video shown in court reportedly showed Brown beating and kicking the clerk.
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