MIAMI — Jurors on Thursday convicted a Miami-Dade police officer who was accused of unlawfully tackling a woman to the ground, then writing an arrest report riddled with lies.
The jury deliberated slightly more than an hour in convicting Alejandro Giraldo of charges of battery and official misconduct.
Prosecutors had charged Giraldo after body-camera footage emerged showing him tackling a woman named Dyma Loving, who had called police in March 2019 to report that a neighbor in South Miami-Dade had pointed a shotgun at her. Instead, Loving wound up in handcuffs and jailed after she and Giraldo traded heated words.
