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December 1st,
2008 - Ex-Marine Acquitted of Crimes Seeks Job Back with Riverside Police |
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Ex-Marine Acquitted of Crimes
Still Seeks Job Back with Riverside Police By Doug Haberman Riverside Press-Enterprise December 1, 2008 A fired Riverside police
officer who sought to get his job back after he was acquitted of war crimes
has had no luck with the city, his attorney said. "Riverside Police
Department has not come through" for Jose Luis Nazario Jr., attorney
Kevin McDermott said. Police Chief Russ Leach said
he couldn't comment on a personnel matter and department spokesman Steven
Frasher would only say Nazario is not on the force. Nazario Jr., 29, was a
probationary officer with the department when a military investigator
arrested the former Marine in August 2007. The department immediately
fired Nazario, who was two months short of completing his probationary
period. In the first-ever civilian
court trial of a veteran stemming from combat actions, Nazario was charged
with shooting to death two unarmed insurgents and ordering the killing of two
others in 2004 in Fallujah, Iraq, while serving in the Marine Corps. A federal jury in Riverside
acquitted him in August. After the verdict, Nazario
walked to Riverside Police Department headquarters a couple of blocks from
the courthouse to ask for his job back. McDermott said Nazario
hasn't given up on the Riverside job but has applied to the Riverside County
Sheriff's Department and to police departments in other Southern California
cities. External link: http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_nazario02.e106cb.html |