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Police Chief Who Supervised Sick, Coed-Attacking Cop Now On Obama’s POST-FERGUSON Task Force

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President Barack Obama has appointed Tucson, Ariz. police chief Roberto Villaseñor to serve on a presidential police task force designed to build community trust after the riots in Ferguson, Mo. and America’s recent rise in anti-police sentiment.

Obama signed an executive order appointing Villaseñor to the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing on Thursday, reports the Arizona Daily Independent.

Villaseñor’s temperament and ability to function on a police task force that will help build America’s trust in law enforcement were on display on March 29, 2014 during a bizarre, SWAT-style action near the campus of the University of Arizona.

The raid occurred after the Arizona Wildcats lost a thrilling NCAA tournament basketball game in overtime.

Villaseñor supervised the deployment of a brigade of about 50 Tucson police officers in full, pseudo-military riot gear.

Numerous bystanders said the officers under Villaseñor’s command began to act with great hostility toward people in the vast crowd — essentially starting the riot they were sent to prevent.

One of the war-ready Tucson cops, Joel Mann, was caught on video brutally pummeling a female student as she walked innocuously near the University of Arizona campus.

In the frightening video, Mann (wearing a helmet and face shield) comes out of absolutely nowhere and violently pushes student Christina Gardilcic over a metal frame. She is smashed head over heels to the ground. (VIDEO: TYRANNY IN TUCSON: Cop In Riot Gear Brutally Attacks Innocent Girl)

Gardilcic had neither a helmet nor a face shield. She was wearing shorts.

Turns out, Mann’s body-worn camera shows that the thuggish cop was involved in a similar incident where he attacked a defenseless woman just eight minutes earlier. (VIDEO: Tucson Police Release Body-Worn Cam Footage Of Sick, Coed-Attacking Cop)

Tucson’s police department reassigned Mann after a large number of anonymous threats were made against him. (RELATED: Tucson Cop Who Randomly Slammed Woman To The Ground Not So Tough After Receiving Threats)

Chief Villaseñor now swears he is ready for the national spotlight.

“It’s an honor and I’m very privileged to provide input at this level,” he beamed after his appointment, according to the Arizona Daily Star.

Over the next 90 days, the task force will seek to “strengthen the relationship between police and the public.” It will then submit a written report to Obama with recommendations.

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey and George Mason University professor Laurie Robinson will chair the task force. The Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) office will collaborate.

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