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.
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NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)Malraiders
(444 posts)murder but I have no faith in the FDLE.
I wonder how many prisoners they beat and didn't kill and weren't caught?
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Stuart G
(38,359 posts)And that iceberg has been invisible for a very, very, long time.