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Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
Wed May 6, 2015, 07:13 PM May 2015

2 guards charged in bloody beating of Florida inmate

Source: Miami Herald

2 guards charged in bloody beating of Florida inmate
Miami Herald
Julie K. Brown
9 hrs ago

Two corrections officers concocted an elaborate lie, fabricated reports and cleaned up bloody evidence to cover up the assault of an inmate at Columbia Correctional Institution, authorities said Tuesday.

The officers, Sgt. Christopher Michael Jernigan, 37, and Officer Donald Dwight Sims Jr., 21, were arrested Monday on charges that they beat a 41-year-old handcuffed inmate who had allegedly "disrespected" them. They left him in a bloody heap in his cell for "several hours" before he fell unconscious and was taken to the hospital.

When questioned by investigators afterward, the officers claimed that inmate Shurick Lewis had injured himself by falling off his bunk.

But investigators with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement discovered evidence that Jernigan and Sims not only lied about the attack, but that they also ordered other inmates to mop up the prisoner's bloody cell and dispose of his mattress, bedding and clothes, FDLE said. They never filed an incident report or a use-of-force report, which is required by the Florida Department of Corrections.


Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/2-guards-charged-in-bloody-beating-of-florida-inmate/ar-BBjge6T?ocid=u142dhp

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2 guards charged in bloody beating of Florida inmate (Original Post) Judi Lynn May 2015 OP
Rare case of catching the lie, but the lies are daily NoJusticeNoPeace May 2015 #1
They should be charged with Malraiders May 2015 #2
glad they were arrested Liberal_in_LA May 2015 #3
I think we are now beginning to see the tip of a very deep iceberg. Stuart G May 2015 #4

Malraiders

(444 posts)
2. They should be charged with
Wed May 6, 2015, 07:22 PM
May 2015

murder but I have no faith in the FDLE.

I wonder how many prisoners they beat and didn't kill and weren't caught?

Stuart G

(38,359 posts)
4. I think we are now beginning to see the tip of a very deep iceberg.
Wed May 6, 2015, 09:41 PM
May 2015

And that iceberg has been invisible for a very, very, long time.

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