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Boston officer fired for using excessive force, lying to officials

By Edward Mason and Tom Mashberg

 |  Globe Correspondents  

  January 19, 2012

A Boston police officer at the center of a notorious 1995 brutality case was fired yesterday after the department found him guilty of using unreasonable force during an unrelated 2009 arrest and then lying about his actions, a police spokeswoman confirmed yesterday. The latest charges against Officer David C. Williams, 48, stem from a traffic stop in the North End in which he was accused of tackling Michael P. O’Brien, a 31-year-old Middlesex corrections officer, and putting him in a choke hold, which is prohibited under department regulations.

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