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A teenage girl struck by a shackle-wielding New Orleans police officer told authorities last year that she was having nightmares about her violent treatment at the city’s juvenile detention center, according to an investigative file released this week. The September run-in prompted the firing last month of Officer Terrance Saulny, a 25-year veteran of the New Orleans Police Department who was found to have used excessive force in restraining the bipolar 16-year-old at the Youth Study Center. Surveillance footage of the incident, released Wednesday by the Office of Independent Police Monitor, raised fresh questions about why Saulny faced no criminal charges after investigators determined he struck the unruly inmate at least twice with a set of four-point restraints. Read More |