PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Providence leaders are dropping charges against four people and disciplining officers who arrested them last month on West Friendship Street, saying the police didn’t follow departmental policies and procedures.
In a press conference last month, Providence Police Col. Oscar Perez released police body-worn camera video and addressed the July 5 incident where police made several arrests at a home on West Friendship Street after officers said residents and partygoers refused to comply with several noise complaints.
The incident, which was captured on camera, resulted in an internal affairs investigation…