Officer is sued for excessive force for allegedly beating a Bally's Casino patron in the head with a baton

In the doorway at 2:40

At age 19, Franco Sydnor was convicted of stabbing his wife's ex-lover four times.
A few years later, he was hired to be an Atlantic City cop anyway.
In the next two decades, Sydnor, a city detective, has been accused of sexual assault, physical assault, domestic violence and even throwing a handcuffed man into a wishing well, according to details revealed in a federal court hearing this week.
In nearly every incident, the city's police leadership found no cause to remove Sydnor from the force and he was never charged with a crime while on the force.

In his lawsuit, Moore claims Sydnor struck him repeatedly in the head and torso with a baton and kneed him in the ribs while he was being thrown out of Bally's Casino in October 2012. The incident, which can be seen in the video at the top of this story, was caught on casino surveillance cameras.

Sydnor was on special detail at the casino that night.

Moore is suing the city police department for being "deliberately indifferent" to the need to train, supervise and discipline its officers, citing a "sham" internal affairs system that allowed Sydnor to continue to escalate his violent behavior while on the force, according to the complaint.

Sydnor claims that he didn't intentionally strike Moore with the baton, but said his injuries were accidental and caused by a baton "grazing" his head.
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