By Keri Blakinger | LA Times
Two years after a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was seen on camera appearing to bash a handcuffed inmate’s head into a concrete wall, prosecutors have decided not to charge either of the jailers involved.
The district attorney’s office explained the move in a memo last month, saying prosecutors couldn’t tell whether the violence was intentional since one of the deputies alleged it was the inmate’s “own momentum” that “caused his head to make contact with the wall.”
The decision comes one year after video of the incident at Men’s Central Jail was made public by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, which posted a 15-second clip of it online. The graphic surveillance video showed two deputies chatting as an inmate emerged from his cell with his hands cuffed behind him.
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Did he see the same video that’s posted here? Because there is no mistaking it, they pulled his shirt, and grabbed his head and slammed it into the wall. Unprovoked.
He must be blind af that inmate didn’t charge at them they pulled him to that wall. How ridiculous..