2 Fired Philadelphia Officers Vindicated After Alleged Courthouse Tagging Incident

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Two fired Philadelphia police officers have been acquitted of assaulting a graffiti vandal, who may have targetted the courthouse during this trial. The judge found the alleged victim lied, repeatedly, is patently unreliable, and he acquitted the defendants of the 2007 incidentg without even letting the case go to the jury for deliberations.

The defendants, former officers Sheldon Fitzgerald and Howard Hill, both 33 and five year veterans, hugged their attornies, each other and family and friends and they want their jobs back.