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Booking Video Released In Lawsuit Against Cherokee County Jail
Picture from the video showing a deputy in the jail holding down a handcuffed man.
Attorneys
for Tahlequah man have released a video reportedly from May 17, 2011
booking of a 42-year-old Daniel Bosh at the Cherokee County jail.
The video shows a handcuffed man being booked by
deputies inside the county jail. In the video a man sitting behind the
booking desk is seen getting up and approaches the handcuffed man.
Shortly thereafter, the man is seen grabbing the handcuffed man's head and appears to slam it into the desk.
He then appears to maneuver the handcuffed man
around, holding the handcuffed man's head under his left arm, and falls
backward onto the floor, driving the handcuffed man head-first into the
floor.
In a federal lawsuit filed against the Cherokee
County Governmental Building Authority and two Cherokee County detention
employees T. J. Girdner and Gordon Chronister, Bosh alleges he was
being booked into the county detention facility May 17 after being
arrested for failure to pay a traffic ticket.
Bosh said he told Chronister his handcuffs were
too tight, and Chronister, who was behind the booking desk, told him to
shut up, then made his way around the desk.
Bosh said Chronister then grabbed his neck and
forcefully slammed his head into the desk. In court documents,
Chronister and Girdner say Bosh was argumentative and shouting
profanities.
Bosh says he was denied medical attention for two
days. When he was treated at a Tulsa hospital, Bosh says he sustained a
burst spinal column fracture.
The Cherokee County Governmental Building Authority has asked the federal court to dismiss the case.
2 comments:
So its ok to assault someone who says something we disagree with!?
He deserved it i was there.
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