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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 07:42 AM
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Caught on tape: More deputies accused of brutally beating inmate
Caught on tape: More deputies accused of brutally beating inmate
WTSP-TV Tampa 10
February 29, 2008

Tampa, Florida - Former teacher Paul King says he used to be one of those people who said lock ‘em up throw away the key.

However King has changed his mind since being arrested on public intoxication last July. A video shows deputies pushed him against a glass wall as he was being frisked, threw him to the ground for no apparent reason, held his neck back more than 2 minutes as he was being put into a restraint chair, put a hood over his face and then appeared to try to hide the action from cameras by moving paperwork to cover his head.

King says it’s something like out of Guantanamo.

King says when he was out of camera view, two deputies took him out of the restraining chair and says they both started kneeing him up against a bench or a wall, as he was pleading please, please, please.

But it didn’t stop there. King says they made him say you’re a f***ing p***y. And he says they were hurting him so he said “ I’m a f***ing p****y and the deputies all laughed.

See video:
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=75098
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flashl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 08:27 AM
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1. Florida is Corrections {For-Profit} Captial and one of the top ten MOST corrupt state
Edited on Sat Mar-01-08 08:30 AM by flashl
in the union.

Its ENTIRE Dept. of Corrections and Law Enforcement agencies over the past ten years has been in some form of collapse under the weight of its corruption.

Florida is also at the top of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch lists for human abuse, civil rights violatons, and human trafficking (slavery).

Although the 'Liberty 7' trial receives high public visibility, in the same timeframe, FBI and DOJ agents attempting to issue warrants against correction guards ended up in a deadly gun fight. The Federal agents were attempting to make arrests in a sex-for-contraband scandal.

Florida is indeed still in the "wild wild west" mode.
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