(ANSA) - Milan, October 1 - A Milan court on Wednesday released its explanation of its July decision to acquit four police officers of the homicide of a labourer who died during an arrest. Michele Ferrulli, 51, died of a heart attack in 2011 while police were handcuffing him on the ground. The court said that "there was no gratuitous violence on Michele Ferrulli" and that the blows the officers landed were necessary to "overcome resistance".
Cops didn't inflict 'gratuitous violence' on dead man
Court explains acquitting four officers of homicide