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Houston Police Chief: Chad Holley Beating Sickening

HOUSTON, TX  — Houston’s police chief told jurors on Tuesday that the 2010 videotaped beating of a black teen burglary suspect made him “sick to my stomach” and gave the police department a “black eye.”

Police Chief Charles McClelland Jr. testified that fired officer Drew Ryser — one of four officers who were indicted in the case — mistreated the teen during his arrest and failed to follow proper procedures.

Ryser, 32, is on trial this week on a misdemeanor charge of official oppression. He faces up to a year in jail if convicted.

“It made me sick to my stomach because it was an egregious use of force and the men and women of the Houston police department are better than that … they did not deserve that type of black eye,” McClelland told special prosecutor Jonathan Munier.

Pictured: Chad Holley (second from right) stands beside his mother, Joyce Holley (right) as Minister Quanell X (left) describes the events surrounding the alleged beating of Chad Holley after an encounter with eight Houston police officers in March, during a press conference Tuesday, May 4, 2010, in Houston with members of the NAACP, S.H.A.P.E. Community Center, the Nation of Islam, Ministers Against Crime, the National Black United Front and other community leaders, to release graphic images of injuries sustained by Holley.

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