Delaware Cop Indicted for Kicking Suspect in Face in Incident Caught on Dash Cam Video

by Carlos Miller
PINAC
May. 08, 2015

The kick to the face was swift and rendered Lateef Dickerson unconscious, leaving him with a broken jaw. And it resulted in Dover Police Corporal Thomas Webster facing a grand jury, which did the normal thing and found no probable cause that the cop committed a crime.

After all, cops are above the law in the eyes of most grand juries, if history is any indicator.

But that’s only because they make decisions based on the evidence prosecutors place before them. And most prosecutors will do anything to not prosecute cops, knowing they are part of the same system.

So Webster, who had been on paid administrative leave from the August 2013 incident that was caught on dash cam video, went back to work after the 2014 grand jury decision, figuring it was all behind him now.

But then in comes a new prosecutor, Delaware Attorney General Matt Denn, who took office in January 2015 and began reviewing past cases, coming across the video and finding it strange that the grand jury did not indict Webster for the kick to the face, which took place as Dickerson was following orders to get down on the ground.

So he re-introduced the case to another grand jury, which indicted Webster on second-degree assault.

Now Webster is back on leave again, but this time, unpaid.

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