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The Albuquerque Police Department has released surveillance video showing an officer shoving a handcuffed suspect, head first, into the wall of a holding cell in February.

Officer John Hill, who was secretary of the Albuquerque Police Officers’ Association executive board, was fired on Aug. 3 following an Internal Affairs investigation. He is also charged with petty misdemeanor battery.

Shaun Willoughby, the police union president, said Hill resigned as secretary when he was fired from APD. Hill had been with APD since April 2012 and was elected to the APOA executive board a couple of years ago.

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The union has appealed his termination

Hill’s jury trial is scheduled for Sept. 30.

“Look carefully at the evidence, look objectively at the evidence,” Hill’s attorney John D’Amato said. “… I believe (a) true objective evaluation of the totality of the circumstances will establish reasonable doubt.”

According to the criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court, interviews, videos and written reports were reviewed, and detectives determined Howe was not physically resisting officer Hill and was not flailing his arms.

Video of the Feb. 17 incident was released to the Journal on Tuesday afternoon in response to a request under the Inspection of Public Records Act.

It shows Hill and another officer walking 47-year-old Jackson Howe into a holding cell. He yells at him as he pushes his head into the wall and then pushes him to sit down on a metal bench.

Howe, who was arrested for allegedly causing a disturbance and hitting people at the Central United Methodist Church, can then be seen kicking at the door and then heard yelling obscenities at the camera for several minutes.