The Phoenix Police Department has launched a criminal investigation into one of its officers after learning of a YouTube video that shows the on-duty officer slamming an unarmed 15-year-old girl into a fence and her slumping to the ground, a department spokesman said Thursday.
Patrick Larrison, a six-and-a-half-year veteran, was directly set on paid leave after another police employee found the video online and notified a supervisor, Sgt.
