Brickbat: Baton Bashing

Former Los Angeles police officer Juan Anthony Carrillo was sentenced to a yr in jail after pleading responsible to depriving an individual’s rights beneath the colour of regulation. Carrillo arrived to help one other officer who had detained a person strolling on the grounds of the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Heart at 4 a.m. Prosecutors say the person was holding a transparent glass pipe that the officer suspected was drug paraphernalia. Carrillo struck the person along with his baton 45 instances in about 41 seconds, leaving the person with cuts on each legs and a damaged bone in his foot. Carrillo, who was about 60 kilos heavier than the person, continued to beat him even after he was fully nonetheless.