The Police never ever do anything wrong ...these cops should be allowed to brutalize any citizen they wish to brutalize..
Ex Cop in prison ?...get him ...make him pay
Ex-Sheriff's Deputy Gets 8 Years Prison For 'Savage Beating' Of Jail Visitor
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ByAMANDA LEE MYERSPublishedNovember 3, 2015, 9:37 AM EST 3779 views
Ex-Sheriff's Deputy Gets 8 Years Prison For 'Savage Beating' Of Jail Visitor
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was sentenced to eight years in federal prison Monday for overseeing the backroom beating of a jail visitor who fellow guards testified was handcuffed on the ground and covered in blood.
U.S. District Judge George King ordered former Sgt. Eric Gonzalez taken into custody immediately after sentencing, telling him he had "abused his authority and corrupted the very system he was sworn to uphold."
Gonzalez, a 15-year veteran of the Sheriff's Department, was found guilty in June of deprivation of civil rights, conspiracy to violate constitutional rights and falsification of records in the 2011 beating of Gabriel Carrillo. Four other deputies have been convicted in the case and await sentencing, while a fifth was indicted last month and faces trial in December.
The convictions in Carrillo's beating are part of a federal investigation of civil rights abuses and corruption at the nation's largest sheriff's department.
Nearly two dozen members of the department, including the former second-in-command, have been charged with crimes ranging from beatings to obstruction of justice; 15 of them have been convicted so far, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.