The graphic surveillance video showed two deputies chatting as an inmate emerged from his cell with his hands cuffed behind him. One deputy appeared to grab the inmate from behind and slam him into the wall, seemingly without provocation. Now that the district attorney’s office is done with the case, sheriff’s officials will decide whether the deputies violated any policies or procedures. On July 4, 2022, the memo said, Deputies Jose Peralta and Johnathan Gutierrez walked up to the inmate’s cell to escort him to the shower. The letter focused on local prosecutors’ failure to charge a group of deputies who beat and pepper-sprayed a visitor they claimed attacked them in 2011.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 11, 2024 14:51 UTC