Boston Police Still "Investigating" Cop Six Years After Video Exonerated Man He Attacked

by Andrew Quemere
PINAC
May. 20, 2015

A local TV station in Boston has discovered yet another case of police lies being refuted by video evidence.

In 2009, Jacob Carnelli was charged with assaulting Boston police officer Adarbaad Karani at a bar, but the charge was dismissed after a surveillance video from the bar showed that he was the one who was attacked.

In 2014, Carnelli received a $100,000 settlement from the bar and a $300,000 settlement from the city as part of a personal injury lawsuit because he suffered a number of injuries from the incident, including multiple concussions and a broken jaw.

In 2015, Karani is still under investigation by internal affairs, a six-year investigation that can be resolved in minutes by comparing the video evidence to Karani’s contradicting statements on the police report.

Carnelli’s case is one of around two thousand police misconduct lawsuits that the city has settled over the past decade, at the cost to taxpayers of more than $36 million.

The incident happened on June 9, 2009 and the suit was settled last year, but it’s making the news now because Fox 25 has learned that the Boston Police Department claims its internal investigation is still ongoing nearly six years later.

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