A pig’s head and animal blood were found in the house in Northern California.
Police said the former home in Northern California witnessed an expert testimony from police use that testified last week for the defense in the Derek Chauvin murder trial.
Police in Santa Rosa, California, said the vandalism took place early Saturday morning in the former home of Barry Brodd, a former Santa Rosa police training officer who moved out of the residence several years ago and is no longer in the state. do not live.
“Because Mr. Brodd no longer lives in the city of Santa Rosa, it appears that the victim was falsely targeted,” Santa Rosa police said in a statement.
Police were called to the home just after 3 a.m. by the new homeowners, who told officers they were awakened by a group of people all dressed in black, who threw a severed pig’s head on their front porch and bled up splashed in front of their house. , officials said.
‘It appears that the suspects in this vandalism Mr. Brodd testified for his testimony, ‘reads the police statement.
About 45 minutes later, an image of a giant hand outside the Santa Rosa Plaza shopping center was found covered in blood, police said. The vandals also left a sign in front of the statue containing a photo of a pig and the words ‘Oink Oink’, police said.
“The suspects were seen fleeing the area and matched the descriptions of the suspects who vandalized the house,” the police statement read.
Brodd, a consultant on police practices and the use of force, testified Tuesday as a paid expert witness for the defense.
He testified that his review of the evidence in the sensational case led him to believe that the kind of violence Chauvin used on George Floyd was justified and that the former Minneapolis ‘police officer’ acted with objective reasonableness following the Minneapolis police policy and current standards of law enforcement in his interaction with Mr. Floyd. ‘
Brodd’s opinion contradicts several trainers for violent training in the Minneapolis police and top officials who testify that the amount of violence Chauvin used on Floyd was excessive, unnecessary and was not written anywhere in the agency’s policies and practices.
“The action is not de-escalation,” Minneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo testified during the trial. “And when we talk about the framework of our holiness of life and when we talk about our principles and the values we have, those actions go against what we are talking about.”
Brodd testified that his career as a police officer spanned 29 years, most of it at the Santa Rosa Police Department.
Following Brodd’s appearance in the Chauvin trial, Santa Rosa Police Chief Rainer Navarro issued a statement knocking out the evidence.
“Mr Brodd’s remarks do not reflect the values and beliefs of the Santa Rosa police,” Navarro said in a statement, adding that Brodd had not worked for his agency since 2004.
Brodd could not be reached for comment Sunday.