Assaulting Officer: Former Police Civilian Review Board member questions CPD Chief's claim that "system worked as it was designed to"

"Only after the civilian files the complaint does anything actually get investigated that could inculpate the officer."

Here's a study in contrasts: when protesters spray painted the street in front of the police station on Market Street in June, the Charlottesville Police Department issued a scolding press release, saying the "criminal actions of a few" had overshadowed and undermined peaceful efforts to protest against police brutality, adding that police officers had to endure the "cruel, threatening, and hate filled language at the entrance of the courts and police station." The CPD also announced that four people would be charged with vandalism, and possibly others. However, when CPD police officer Jeffrey Jaeger was recently charged with actually assaulting a Black man he arrested in March, an arrest that appears to have been questionable, as the man was found not guilty of the drunk in public and obstruction of justice charges he was accused of, there was a noticeable absence of outrage or comments about the "criminal actions of a few" in the accompanying press release. Instead, the CPD used the…