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Police officers disciplined over suspect beating


their involvement in the November arrest of a suspect who was beaten by police and later died.

Darrin Hanna's death sparked protests and led to several investigations, most recently a federal inquiry by the U.S. attorney's office.

Officers who responded to a call saying Hanna was holding his pregnant girlfriend against her will and threatening to drown her in a bathtub punched the 45-year-old man and shocked him with a stun gun.

The coroner ruled that several factors contributed to Hanna's death, including chronic cocaine abuse, high blood pressure, kidney problems, as well as physical restraint and stun gun shocks. Last month, Lake County prosecutors said the officers wouldn't be charged.

The outcry has failed to diminish. Among new evidence to emerge are police recordings in which Hanna can be heard pleading, "Put me down, please," while an officer tells him to "relax."