Ex-Alabama officer pleads guilty to assaulting detained man

TALLASSEE, Ala. (AP) — A former Alabama police officer has admitted to slamming a compliant handcuffed man into the ground and then slamming the man’s head into his patrol car.
News outlets report 27-year-old Michael Brandon Smirnoff pleaded guilty Friday to federal excessive force charges. He’s set to be sentenced in July.
A U.S. Department of Justice release says Smirnoff was working as a Tallassee police investigator in March 2016 when took part in the arrest of a man who fl