Feds Won't Prosecute Minneapolis Police officers in Plunger case

A federal investigation has cleared two police officers accused of putting a toilet plunger in a drug suspect's rectum, Police Chief William McManus said Friday. The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division found no evidence of "prosecutable violation" federal criminal civil rights laws, McManus said at a news conference where he stood side-by-side with one of the officers, Jeff Jindra. [more]