Sunday, May 4, 2014

US police sued for beating man with Down syndrome


The San Diego County Sheriff's Department is facing a lawsuit from the family of a young man with Down syndrome who was brutalized by a deputy.
According to the lawsuit filed Thursday, Deputy Jeffrey Guy attacked 21-year old Antonio Tony Martinez with pepper spray and batons in December 2012.
The deputy confronted Martinez , who has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old, and “unloaded a canister of highly irritating pepper spray into Tony’s face and eyes,” then drove him to the ground and beat him with a baton.
The complaint says Martinez suffered “facial abrasions to his nose and over his eye, and leg, arm and back pain with contusions.”
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http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/05/04/361260/us-police-sued-for-beating-disabled-man/

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