The county council is considering the creation of a civilian review board to oversee the police department.

Dwight Harris, the man who was videotaped being forced from his wheelchair and bloodied by Metro Transit Police along U Street in May, was supposed to appear before a judge on Friday on misdemeanor assault charges. That won’t be necessary now, though: all criminal charges against Harris have been dropped.

The videotaped altercation between Dwight Harris and two transit police officers who appeared to violently restrain him outside the U Street Metro station last week has led to dropped charges and discipline for the officers involved.

The man accused of resisting arrest during an altercation with transit police which was caught on tape outside the U Street Metro station is now speaking out.

Yesterday, we reported on a disturbing piece of video which depicted two Metro Transit Police officers restraining and arresting a wheelchair-bound man outside the U Street Metro station. The video has drawn plenty of reaction — enough for Metro to finally respond to what happened.

Over the weekend, a video surfaced on YouTube showing what appears to be D.C. Metro Police forcefully arresting a man in a wheelchair just outside of the U Street/African-Amer Civil War Memorial/Cardozo Metro station. In the video, we can see the incident takes place during the middle of the day, just across the street from Ben’s Chili Bowl. Two police officers, who appear to be with Metro Transit Police, tackle a man from his motorized wheelchair onto the sidewalk, injuring the man and causing him to bleed from the head. Since the incident took place midday, a crowd forms quickly. One woman can be heard clearly saying that he man is “always in a wheelchair” and supposedly lives nearby.

Former MPD police officer Kisha Coley was sentenced to 6 days in jail after pleading guilty to two counts of assault. In March, Coley got into an argument while making an arrest with a man she was arresting and struck him with her baton. Coley resigned from her position as a part of her plea agreement. She will perform 100 hours of community service and receive anger management training as a part of her sentencing….