Atlanta officer who attacked our client indicted

A former Atlanta Police Department officer who beat one of our clients was recently indicted for beating another suspect in 2010.  Nicholas J. Dimauro was one of three Atlanta officers who severely beat our client, in 2011.  After the City of Atlanta settled a civil suit resulting from the beating, the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office opened a criminal investigation into Mr. Dimauro’s conduct.  As a result of their investigation, the District Attorney’s office recently presented a case against Dimauro to a grand jury.  The grand jury returned an indictment, charging Dimauro with committing two counts of aggravated battery, one count of aggravated assault and two counts of violation of oath by a public officer.

Dimauro is accused of committing those crimes during his interaction with Robert Wormley, in 2010.  In a complaint filed with the Atlanta Police Department, Wormley reported that he was walking home from a friend’s house, in September 2010, when Dimauro drove by in his patrol car.  Wormley reported that Dimauro turned his car around, stopped him and demanded that he show his identification.  During his interaction with Dimauro, Wormley ran.  Wormley alleged that, when Dimauro caught up to him, Dimauro pushed him to the ground and began hitting him with a baton.  Wormley reported that Dimauro repeatedly hit him with a baton or a “metal pole.”  As a result of the beating, Wormley was hospitalized for four days, suffered a broken arm, broken ribs, chipped teeth and a collapsed lung.  Despite finding that Dimauro used excessive force against Mr. Wormley, the Atlanta Police Department allowed Dimauro to keep his job.

Later, in 2011, Dimauro and two other officers severely beat our client.  Dimauro repeatedly punched our client in the back and side, while another officer punched our client in the face and a third officer repeatedly kicked our client in the head.  At the time, our client was lying on the ground, attempting to surrender to the officers.  The beating was captured on video by a nearby pedestrian.  When our client filed an internal affairs complaint against the officers, Dimauro was finally fired.  However, in 2013, despite his long history of using excessive force against citizens, the City of Atlanta reinstated Dimauro to his job and gave him back-pay for the time during which he was off the job.  Shortly thereafter, Dimauro retired from the Atlanta Police Department and the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council (“P.O.S.T.”) revoked Dimauro’s certification to be a police officer in the State of Georgia.

See more on the indictment at: AJC, Examiner.

See more on Dimauro’s beating of our client at: WSB, WSB #2, and WSB #3.