Two Hawaii cops suspended after beat down at game room


Surveillance footage at a Doc’s Game Room in Honolulu shows Officer Vince Morre attacking two men after he failed to find an eluding suspect at the business. He lobbed a stool at Jordan Topinio’s head on his way out of the store without making an arrest. The 25-year-old was hospitalized with head injuries after the attack.

BY NICOLE HENSLEY
KHNL/KGMBHonolulu Police Officer Vince Morre is shown kicking a man in the chest on his way out after not finding the suspect he was looking for.
Two Hawaii cops are suspended after allegedly kicking, slapping and throwing a chair at two men at a game room.
Officer Vince Morre kicked a bystander within seconds of walking through the door at Doc’s Game Room, according to a video obtained by KHNL-TV, while hunting down an eluding suspect.
The worst of the attack was directed at 25-year-old Jordan Topinio, who was hospitalized with head injuries after being kicked in the face twice and being knocked to the floor by a flying chair during the Sept. 5 incident.
The Honolulu business was empty of wrongdoers, much to Morre’s dismay, after the plain-clothed officers with the district’s Crime Reduction Unit checked the bathroom, too.
 KHNL/KGMBHonolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha has suspended two officers after the video surfaced showing the beat down at a game room.
Just before leaving empty-handed, the now-suspended cop, shown with a police badge dangling from his neck, lashed out at the man closest to him with a surprise punch, slap and kick to the chest.
Just before Morre and his partner, Officer Nelson Tamayori, left the business empty-handed, he turned his attention back to Topinio and kicked him in the face again as he looks passively down at the floor, the video shows.
Honolulu Police Department is investigating the case of police brutality internally especially after the video then shows Morre picking up a nearby stool and lobbing it right at Topinio.
 Officer Vince Morre is shown kicking and hitting a bystander at a Honolulu game room on Sept. 5 while tracking down a suspect.
His injuries required several staples at a nearby hospital, defense attorney Myles Breiner told the Daily News.
Breiner named one victim, but not the second citing “concerns for his safety,” Breiner added.
The officer’s behavior is “totally unacceptable,” Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha told KHNL-TV after watching the video footage for the first time.
 He suspended Tamayori for not stopping Morre during the beat down and asked a reserve officer, who was also at the scene, to retire, Breiner added.
The case has been referred to the FBI and District Attorney’s Office in Hawaii.
nhensley@nydailynews.com