Gino Thompson,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
April 16, 1994
Agencies: Philadelphia Police Department Pennsylvania | District Attorney's Office Pennsylvania
Cause of death: Vehicular
Last updated: over 5 years ago
Overview 
On April 16, 1994, Thompson was arrested for disorderly conduct after a dispute with his girlfriend at Broad Street and Lehigh Avenue.
Beasley and his partner, former officer Kevin Powell, put Thompson in the back of a van. During the trip to the district headquarters, Thompson fell and severed his spine.
Thompson alleged that the officers intentionally zig-zagged the van and drove over a divider in the road in an effort to injure him.
Powell was fired three months after Thompson's arrests when he was charged with raping a woman in his patrol car. Beasley was not involved in that incident.http://articles.philly.com/1996-02-15/news/25656056_1_police-board-police-van-beasley
Additional Resources:
- http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2015/0702/Why-Baltimore-plans-to-add-cameras-inside-police-vans added March 21, 2016 07:12
- http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/5/1/1381821/-Had-you-ever-even-heard-of-police-doing-rough-rides-before-Freddie-Gray-They-re-everywhere added March 21, 2016 07:10
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_ride_%28police_brutality%29 added March 21, 2016 07:09
- http://www.phillymag.com/citified/2015/04/27/freddie-gray-baltimore-police-nickel-rides/ added March 21, 2016 07:09
- http://articles.philly.com/1996-02-15/news/25656056_1_police-board-police-van-beasley added March 21, 2016 07:03