[WATCH] Michigan Police Officer Known as Robocop Convicted in Beating of Floyd Dent

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[WATCH] Michigan Police Officer Known as Robocop Convicted in Beating of Floyd Dent

October 17th, 2017

Awake Goy

After more than a decade of accusations of abusing citizens, falsifying reports and planting drugs and weapons, the Michigan police officer known as Robocop was convicted today, putting an end to his less than stellar law enforcement career.

And it was only because the incident was captured on dash cam video.

William Melendez, who was fired from the Inkster Police Department in April after a dash cam video surfaced showing him pull over and beat a man named Floyd Dent, was found guilty of assault with intent to do great bodily harm and of misconduct in office.

The jury cleared him of a charge of assault by strangulation. He will be sentenced December 3 and faces up to ten years in prison.

He will remain incarcerated until then, a decision that prompted Robocop’s wife to storm out of the courtroom in a huff, but she was brought back in and scorned by the judge.

Melendez-in-armorWiliam “Robocop” Melendez
Dent, the 57-year-old veteran Ford Motor Company worker, did not attend the trial out of fear.

But two dozen Wayne County sheriff’s deputies along with a police dog were in attendance.

Our first impression was that they were there in support of Melendez as cops tend to pack the courtrooms in support of cops on trial.

But Melendez, a former Detroit police officer, never worked for the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office.

One of Dent’s attorneys, Nick Bennett, cleared up the confusion in a Facebook message interview with Photography is Not a Crime.

They bring in extra deputies when verdicts are being read if it is a high profile case, capital case, or cases where there is potential for the victim and/or defendants families to get rowdy when the verdict is read. I had a murder trial last year and they had even more deputies.
Bennett emphasized that he did not believe the deputies cared one way or another if Robocop was convicted.

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