The inmate lay on the floor sobbing, and Sgt. Eric Allen decided he’d had enough.
“Put her in a wrist lock,” he tells another jail officer at the Metropolitan Detention Center, “and twist her wrist until she shuts up and stops crying.”
It doesn’t work. Almost nothing does. The inmate – a petite woman named Susie Chavez – spends the next 45 minutes shrieking, sobbing and crying out in pain as Allen and other officers escort her to a medical unit.
The crying starts after Chavez is hit with a stun gun to the back. She later endures the wrist lock and inflammatory spray to the face. At one point, she starts banging her head on the ground.
The stomach-churning video, released by the county Wednesday in response to a request by the Journal under the Inspection of Public Records Act, is part of an investigation into Sgt. Allen, who’s been on paid leave since January, county and union officials say. Allen is a frontline supervisor at the jail – vice president of the jail officers’ union and someone who has trained other officers on the use of force.
The lack of humanity, the sadism, and the blatant abuse of authority. Those ****ing pigs need to be fired. I am livid.
Edit: But, of course, he's been sitting on his fat ass on paid leave for more than six moths. The events in the video took place in November, 2015. Disgusting system.
Edit2: Oh, and all of this happened because the inmate committed the incredible "offense" of having posters in her jail cell
The lack of humanity, the sadism, and the blatant abuse of authority. Those ****ing pigs need to be fired. I am livid.
Edit: But, of course, he's been sitting on his fat ass on paid leave for six moths. The events in the video took place in November, 2015. Disgusting system.
Edit2: Oh, and all of this happened because the inmate committed the incredible "offense" of having posters in her jail cell
I understand that this video is extremely cruel and that they were at some point physically handling her; however, during the hall scene she's just screaming and crying for no reason when they're politely asking her to stop. It makes you think whether or not she's just overly dramatic about everything they do to her.
The fact that they get paid is so ridiculous. Hardly any other job would put you on paid suspension for doing something this awful. They'd just fire your ass.
