MILWAUKEE —A Milwaukee police
officer accused of using excessive force on a man in handcuffs has been found
guilty of misconduct in office
Officer Rodney Lloyd, 48, was
taken into custody in October by MPD Internal Affairs, the department said.
According to the criminal complaint,
Lloyd escorted a suspect who was in handcuffs into a booking room in June. The
complaint says the man showed no physical resistance to Lloyd.
The complaint says video
surveillance showed that Lloyd "forcibly drove (the man's) head into the
concrete block wall adjacent to a bench while placing him onto the bench."
Other officers in the station
apparently intervened, and the suspect, who was under arrest for a domestic
situation, suffered only a minor head injury.
Lloyd was found guilty of
misconduct in office. He was found not guilty of a second charge of abuse of
residents of a penal facility.
"Restraint is one of our
core values, and we take our values very seriously," Police Chief Ed Flynn
said in response to the charges.
Lloyd could face three years in prison on the
misconduct charge. He will be sentenced May 9