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Former officer sentenced for attack on restrained man

TUKWILA, Wash. — A former police officer will now become an inmate.

He was sentenced on Tuesday to nine months in jail for a 2011 attack on a restrained man at a Seattle hospital.

Nick Hogan was working for Tukwila police at the time.

Hogan acknowledged in his plea agreement in November that he repeatedly struck a handcuffed man while transporting him to Harborview Medical Center.

He also pepper-sprayed the man while he was restrained on a gurney.

Hogan was fired for the incident but then got a job with Snoqualmie police.

As part of his sentencing, he is banned from working as a policeman or security guard for 15 years.

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