Trial testimony began Oct. 7 in the case against a Wilmington police sergeant charged with assault for slapping a handcuffed woman.

Sgt. Caro Spearman faces charges of third-degree assault, offensive touching and official misconduct for delivering an open-handed strike to a woman's face when she had spat on him from the sidewalk of a hotel on the Wilmington Riverfront in April 2024.

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