GRIFFIN - A Griffin police officer has been sentenced to 10 years probation for shooting a motorist who knocked him down on a city street. <br>
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Bradford Richardson was convicted Friday of aggravated assault for the July 2000 shooting of Efren Hernandez-Ayala, who suffered brain damage from the shooting. <br>
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Richardson was talking to two men pushing a bicycle early one morning when Hernandez-Ayala drove by and clipped him, breaking an arm and injuring his head. Hernandez-Ayala stopped his car and began apologizing, authorities said, but Richardson fired about a dozen rounds at the car. <br>
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Richardson will appeal the aggravated assault conviction, police spokesman Felita Williams said. <br>
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``His status, suspended without pay, will remain the same until the case has been resolved,'' Williams said.
