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Kids Say Deputies Beat Dad to Death
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (CN) - Kern County sheriff's deputies beat a man to death after finding him sleeping on a front lawn, the man's family claims in court.
Tara Garlick and four children sued Kern County, its Sheriff's Department, Sheriff Donny Youngblood and seven deputies in Federal Court for the wrongful death of David Sal Silva, the children's father.
Garlick describes herself in the complaint as Silva's "life partner," but she does not say if she is the children's mother.
The family claims the deputies used excessive force on Silva though he posed no threat to them, causing him to die of blunt force trauma.
"On May 17, 2013, a sheriff's deputy reported to a scene where a man was asleep on a front lawn," the complaint states. "Upon arrival the sheriff's deputy proceeded to knuckle-rub the sleeping man, causing the man to wake up in a panic. Immediately thereafter, this sheriff's deputy, along with five other sheriff's deputies and a sergeant, proceeded to strike this man with batons several times all over his body, while the man screamed in pain and repeatedly begged the officers to stop. At about this same time, a K-9 dog belonging to one of the sheriff's deputies attacked the man. Eventually, the officers hog-tied the man. After the repeated beating by the sheriff's deputies and biting by a deputy's K-9 dog, the man eventually stopped breathing. Nonetheless, the sheriff's deputies failed to immediately transport the man to a hospital despite the man's apparent inability to breathe. Finally, after a significant delay the man was taken to Kern Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 12:44 a.m. on May 8, 2013."
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/07/15/59343.htm
Iggo
(47,571 posts)They're the best!
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Democracyinkind
(4,015 posts)Go Vols
(5,902 posts):/
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)Blackford
(289 posts)save for the occasional uniform.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Again. Incidents of police brutality are almost always the precipitating factor in urban unrest. Too many thug cops get away with too many acts of brutality too often, and one day you wake up and your city is on fire.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)happens the the perpetrators.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)Paid vacation?
ladjf
(17,320 posts)toward American people. nt
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Creepy, creepy, creepy in this country now...
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)"this sheriff's deputy, along with five other sheriff's deputies and a sergeant...a K-9 dog". So, that's 7 (seven) cops and a dog for a guy who's committing a major crime like sleeping on a front lawn.
"Eventually, the officers hog-tied the man"...seven cops could only hog-tie him "eventually"???? Who was this guy? The Hulk?
Rex
(65,616 posts)Some of them are blood thirsty animals, like in this article.
datasuspect
(26,591 posts)SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)and don't I feel safe!
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)See? It was his own fault.