Major discipline · 2024[1]
Terminated- Rank as reported
- Officer
- Sustained charge(s)
- Officer utilized Excessive Force
- Separated while IA pending
- No
Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)
Officer Andrew Eckert was terminated by the Pleasantville Police Department on a sustained excessive force charge. The record states that Eckert responded as back-up on an investigation of a parked vehicle and that the subject was already handcuffed and lying facedown when Eckert broke the subject's wrist. After the injury, Eckert threw the handcuffed subject into the air and into a fence.
Synopsis as reported by the agency
Officer Andrew Eckert responded as back-up for an investigation of a parked motor vehicle with the doors ajar and the interior light on. The vehicle was unoccupied in a parking lot of PNC Bank. When Officer Eckert arrived, the subject was in custody and handcuffed. The subject was lying on the ground, facedown, when Officer Eckert broke the subject’s wrist while he was restrained him in handcuffs. Following the physical force that caused the injury to the subject’s wrist, Officer Eckert tossed him into the air and subsequently into a fence while he was still handcuffed.