Video shows deputy slamming a handcuffed prisoner against concrete

Nabil Anas

Global Courant

A Los Angeles County deputy was caught on a prison surveillance camera slamming the head of a handcuffed inmate against a concrete wall at the Men’s Central Jail without apparent provocation.

The recently released 15-second video was obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union. Photos taken after the incident show the unidentified man covered in blood with a deep, gaping head wound about three inches long and nearly an inch wide.

“I just don’t have the words to express how shocking this is,” said Corene Kendrick, deputy director of the ACLU’s National Prison Project, which charges prisons and jails in trouble. “Calling that video barbaric is an insult to barbarians. It’s a miracle that man isn’t dead.”

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“This matter is currently under investigation,” he said.

The beginning of the video – dated July 4, 2022 – depicts two deputies talking casually in a hallway in Men’s Central Jail. There’s no sound, so it’s unclear what they’re saying, but it looks like they’re waiting for a man to come out of his cell. After about seven seconds, a cell door on the right side of the hallway slides open and a man calmly walks out, his hands already tied behind his back.

One of the deputies grabs him and the man seems to back off a bit as he tries to keep walking.

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