LOS ANGELES — In an L.A. County jail last year, a sheriff’s deputy was escorting an inmate when the inmate walked away. Without hesitation, the deputy grabbed the man’s chest and slammed him into a wall.
That deputy and another then punched the inmate several times in the head as they took him to the floor, according to a report released Thursday, because they “‘feared’ that the inmate might become assaultive.”
The violent incident at the inmate reception center and others were highlighted in a scathing report by court-appointed monitors, who have been overseeing jail conditions since 2016 as part of a settlement in a federal class-action lawsuit related to beatings in the lockups.
