Greensboro police body camera video - officer attacks man

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Greensboro council considers action against former officer

HOW IT UNFOLDED

Here's a timeline of events, which the News & Record compiled through interviews and documents, including a memo City Attorney Tom Carruthers sent to council members Friday:

• June 17: Greensboro Police Officer Travis Cole, 35, and his partner respond just before 8 p.m. to 2 Mistywood Court about a possible burglary. They find 36-year-old Dejuan Yourse, the son of homeowner Livia Yourse, sitting on the porch. Livia Yourse isn’t home. Cameras worn by Cole and his partner capture actions by Cole that City Council members later describe as inappropriate and disturbing. An unnamed acting supervisor from the police department arrives after Cole's partner requests backup. Yourse is charged with two counts of resisting arrest and assault on government officials — Cole and a 30-year-old woman named C.N. Jackson. It’s unclear whether Jackson is Cole’s partner. The department begins an internal investigation.

• July 20: Dejuan Yourse calls the police department’s Professional Standards Division. It’s unclear what they discuss.

• July 29: The acting supervisor finishes the investigation and gives the report to an unnamed sergeant, who gives it to an unnamed lieutenant.

• Aug. 4: The lieutenant gives the report to an unnamed captain.

• Aug. 9: The captain issues his findings to an unnamed deputy chief (the department has four), who forwards it to Chief Wayne Scott.

• Aug. 10: The department places Cole on paid administrative leave. The Criminal Investigation Division gives the camera footage and other material to Howard Neumann, chief assistant district attorney for Guilford County, to decide if criminal charges against Cole are necessary. Police officials tell Neumann about the pending assault and resisting arrest charges against Yourse.

• Aug. 15: The Criminal Investigation Division interviews Livia Yourse by phone. Dejuan Yourse agrees to meet with officers. • Aug. 16: Yourse doesn’t appear for his interview and Criminal Investigation Division officials can’t reach him by phone. Yourse later says his phone had been disconnected. Cole’s attorney contacts police officials.

• Aug. 17: The Criminal Investigation Division interviews Cole’s partner.

• Aug. 18: The Criminal Investigation Division interviews Cole’s partner again and schedules an interview with Cole.

• Aug. 19: Cole resigns.

• Aug. 22: Neumann decides not to prosecute Cole or Yourse.

• Aug. 29: As state law dictates, police officials tell the state Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission that Cole resigned during an internal investigation.

• Aug. 30: Police officials finish their internal investigation and find that Cole violated four department directives: use of force; courtesy toward the public; arrest, search and seizure; and compliance to laws and regulations.

• Sept. 20: City Council members watch footage from Cole and his partner’s cameras during a two-hour private meeting. They vote 7-2 to let the public see the footage. Councilmen Mike Barber and Tony Wilkins vote against it, saying that would violate the privacy rights of Cole’s partner, who hasn’t agreed to its public release.

• Sept. 22: Dejuan and Livia Cole watch the footage for the first time at City Hall.

• Sept. 23: Carruthers tells council members the police department followed its policies in the internal investigation.

• Monday, 1 p.m.: The City Council will meet and air the footage on the Greensboro Television Network (Time Warner Cable, Channel 13). The council also will consider a resolution recommending that the state commission revoke Cole’s law enforcement certification.