In the 11 months between joining the Akron Police Department and shooting an unarmed man who had been kicked out of an Ellet bar last month, Officer Caleb Bodjanac was involved in at least 13 use-of-force incidents, according to documents obtained by Signal Akron.
A lieutenant in the Canton Police Department previously told Signal Akron that Bodjanac was involved in seven use-of-force incidents in that department, where he spent more than three years prior to joining the APD. He also spent a brief period of time pursuing a job with the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, according to the Canton Civil Service Commission.
Bodjanac eclipsed his three years of use-of-force incidents in Canton in his first three months as an Akron police officer. And he doubled his Canton total in less than a year…