Jury fails to convict assault case policeman

PROSECUTORS in Los Angeles were yesterday deciding whether to seek a retrial, after a jury failed to reach a verdict in the case of apoliceman who was caught on video assaulting a handcuffed black teenager.

The jury, which included one black member, cleared Jeremy Morse’s partner of making a false report about the incident last July in Inglewood.

Morse is white, and the tape of him punching and slamming Donovan Jackson, then 16, into the side of his patrol car evoked painful memories of the police beating of motorist Rodney King and the riots it sparked.