FORT WORTH (1080 KRLD)- A Fort Worth police officer has been fired for the second time.
Police say in January, Officer Mitchell Miller arrested a person for public intoxication and transported him to the Fort Worth Jail. While Officer Miller was escorting the arrested person toward the jail entrance, the arrested person turned toward Miller and Miller reacted by shoving the individual, who was handcuffed, toward the ground. The arrested person fell face first onto the concrete, hit his head and lost consciousness. Officer Miller then failed to report this use of force.
This isn't the first time Miller was fired.
In 2018, officer Miller and other officers were accused of ignoring a handcuffed suspect's pleas for medical attention before he died and trying to cover up their decision not to get him help.
55-year-old Christopher Lowe repeatedly told the officers that he was dying and couldn't breathe as he was handcuffed and put in the back of a patrol car. However, the officers disregarded his pleas for medical care and assumed he was lying.
Following his firing, Miller appealed and reached a settlement with the City, accepting a 15-day suspension in lieu of termination.
Miller was hired in 2017.
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