Autopsy Blames Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Officers In Death Of Latino Military Veteran

[SeattleGirl]

A powerful Arizona lawyer called for a criminal investigation into some of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s officers on Thursday after a long-awaited autopsy determined they were partly to blame for the death of Latino military veteran in December.

Attorney Michael Manning told TPM he planned to ask for an outside agency to examine the case of Ernest “Marty” Atencio, who lost consciousness and later died following a fight with law enforcement officers inside one of the sheriff’s jails in Phoenix.

Manning said the results of an autopsy released this week, six months after the death, proved what surveillance footage from the jail had already led him to believe: that Atencio would still be alive if sheriff’s detention officers and Phoenix cops hadn’t ganged up on him, pinned him down and given him electric shocks with a stun gun.

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Surveillance video released just days after the death showed that at some point during the booking process Atencio folded his arms and backed up against a wall. That’s when officers grabbed him and began to wrestle him to the ground. During the struggle, the video showed, one of the sheriff’s detention officers used a stun gun to shock Atencio into submission. Soon he was dragged into a holding cell, where he was stripped naked and left laying motionless on the floor for several minutes until medical help was called. He was quickly declared brain dead and several days later was taken off life support.

Link: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.co...report.php

Arpaio needs to be behind bars himself!

[OptimistesMaddie]

They used a deadly weapon and then left him in the cell unattended.

The DOJ must get involved.

[Willinois]

This is what happens when you have a poorly trained and poorly managed police department. There have been several jail deaths in my county and it also goes back to an incompetent Sheriff.

[Brewman_Jax]

The fact that this racist birther scumbag would waste taxpayer money on a Hawaii vacation instead of correcting internal problems shows that he has no business in office. He and the other officials need to be investigated, indicted, and put on trial for negligence and other criminal charges.

[jaxx]

Absolute cruelty. How can people treat another like they did this man? Arpaio and his henchmen have wreaked terror on their prisoners and those who loved his 'pink panties' bs ought to be smacked. I would love to see them in jail for life.