- A former corrections officer in Oklahoma was found guilty of aiding white supremacist attacks.
- Matthew Ware commanded lower-ranking officers to move two Black detainees to a cell row with white supremacist inmates, the Justice Department said.
- He also commanded officers to unlock the cell doors, resulting in injury to the Black detainees.
Matthew Ware, a former supervisory corrections officer at the Kay County Detention Center, violated "the civil rights of three pretrial detainees," the Justice Department said in a release.
According to the release, Ware "willfully" deprived them of their "right to be free from a corrections officer's deliberate indifference to a substantial risk of serious harm" and "use of excessive force," a jury found.
In 2017, Ware commanded lower-ranking officers to move two Black detainees to a cell row that housed "white supremacist" inmates, the release stated. These inmates "posed a danger" to the detainees, D'Angelo Wilson and Marcus Miller.
Later that day, Ware ordered the officers to unlock the doors to both the jail cells of the detainees and of the white supremacist inmates.
"When Ware's orders were followed, the white supremacist inmates attacked Wilson and Miller, resulting in physical injury to both, including a facial laceration to Wilson that required seven stitches to close," the release said.
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They should put this coward in that same prison in Gen Pop. This probably goes on all across the country.