
A young college student, a minister and a fellow officer described their nightmare interactions with the former Pine Lawn lieutenant during the first day of his sentencing hearing in federal court.
Blakeney, who was convicted in January for his role in a bogus arrest, sat just a few yards away, saying nothing as the witnesses accused him of harassing, threatening and, in the case of the minister, physically assaulting people under the guise of police work.
"He ruined lives," Warson Woods Officer Allen Lawson said later.
Lawson served on the Pine Lawn force for three years with Blakeney. He testified about a day in July 2013 when the hulking 36-year-old ordered him to gather all the city's officers and stage along I-70.…