A lawyer on Tuesday called for criminal charges to be filed against the Maine State Police officers who punched and tackled a handcuffed man during an arrest at his home in York County last year.

The man’s attorney, Jeffrey Bennett, said the York County district attorney should convene a grand jury to criminally charge the troopers who assaulted Justin Savage while arresting him in March 2024 at his home in Limerick. The arrest was the subject of a Maine Monitor/Bangor Daily News investigation published earlier this month.

“What happened to Justin was a criminal act,” Bennett said at a Portland press conference. “This case needs to be reviewed by a grand jury, and indictments need to follow from that. If that doesn’t happen, then the criminal justice system in the state of Maine isn’t

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