Daily News | Mistrial declared in the case of a Philly SWAT officer who pepper-sprayed protesters on I-676
A Philadelphia judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case of former city SWAT Officer Richard P. Nicoletti, who is facing criminal charges for pepper-spraying three demonstrators who sat in the middle of I-676 during the city’s racial justice protests in 2020.Early Friday afternoon, the jury had told Common Pleas Court Judge Roxanne E. Covington that they had reached an impasse.
Still, Nicoletti, 37, was one of just two officers to face criminal charges over his behavior. Prosecutors had contended his use of the use of pepper-spray — at point-blank range and into three demonstrators’ faces — was unnecessary and beyond the scope of his duties as an officer. “He was justified in what he did,” Fortunato Perri Jr. told jurors during his closing argument Thursday. “There is zero evidence that he did anything other than his job.”
SWAT Officers then fired tear gas, causing most protesters to begin retreating and scrambling for exits. But three people — Christina Sorenson, Katharine Walsh, and Diamonik Hough, who all testified at the trial — decided to take a seat in the middle of the eastbound lanes. Hough said he sat first to show that protesters were not intent on violence; Sorenson and Walsh said they then sat near Hough as a show of solidarity, even though they did not know him or one another.
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