For more than two decades, Michigan cop Matthew Furman terrorized Black residents of Melvindale through condescending, aggressive, and unconstitutional behavior — mocking them when they threatened legal action and bragging that his superiors would always protect him.
But the former police lieutenant is no longer laughing. He was sentenced last week to six months in jail for felony misconduct after tasering a Black man for more than 40 seconds when the man drove around barricades in his neighborhood to get home.
“You are that bad apple one percent,” Judge Mark Slavens told Furman during sentencing, local media reported.
“You swore an oath, sir, to serve and protect. But this court believes that, in the end, you took up an oath to terrorize and injure citizens of the state of Michigan.”…