HONOLULU (AP) — A U.S. judge sentenced a former Honolulu police officer Wednesday to four years in prison for forcing a homeless man to lick a public urinal, telling him to imagine someone doing that to his two young daughters. The homeless man was just as defenseless and powerless as the children of defendant John Rabago, U.S. District Judge Leslie Kobayashi said. Rabago, 44, and another officer had responded to a nuisance complaint in 2018 when they found the homeless man in a stall in a public restroom. Rabago threatened to beat the man and stuff his face in a toilet if he didn’t lick the urinal, Kobayashi said. Earlier this year, the homeless man filed a lawsuit against the Honolulu Police Department and the city.

Source: Huffington Post July 16, 2020 13:41 UTC