Overview

• Superior Court Justice Jennifer Woollcombe sentenced Au to a suspended term, 12 months probation and a three-year weapons ban after his November assault conviction
• Woollcombe ruled Au’s takedown of 19-year-old Chadd Facey represented excessive and unreasonable force during a counterfeit Apple Watch transaction
• Facey died hours later from an intracerebral hemorrhage but the court found insufficient evidence to link the assault directly to his death
• Au remains suspended with pay pending a police disciplinary hearing and the Special Investigations Unit has reopened a probe into another shooting incident involving him
• The judge determined there was no racial motivation in the assault, attributing Au’s actions solely to a desire to recover the $400 paid for the fake watch