Before newly-minted Indianapolis police chief had been in the position long enough to attend her own confirmation hearing, Tanya Terry had a major controversy on her hands: a viral video of a Feb. 6 traffic stop where an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer threatened to kill a 17-year-old driver.
“I will f—ing kill you,” an officer said to the teen as he pulled him out of his car. Police ultimately recovered a handgun and some marijuana from a passenger, but the driver who’d been subject to the threat had no contraband in his possession.
Though the department released a statement in response
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