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atari 2600 · 08.11.2007, 03:06 PM

PRESTON WELLS, FORMER JAILER: I have seen people get punched. I have seen people get kicked. I have seen, you know, basically, just beat them -- that's about as best I can describe it -- I mean, for no reason.

CROSBY: It was not a racial issue. It was across the board. It was just an issue of people having complete power over other people who were in a compromised position, with no power. And that was it, and that was their excuse to just unleash holy terror upon them.

KOCH: Roderick Miller is a former inmate.

RODERICK MILLER, FORMER INMATE: I was punched. I was drug across a bench. I was kicked.

KOCH (on camera): Did they say anything while they were doing this?

MILLER: He repeatedly said he will kill me. He says, "I'm going to kill you."

KOCH: Did you believe him?

MILLER: Yes, I did believe him. I knew I was going to die.

KOCH (voice-over): Miller says, during his single night in jail, he was attacked by two guards, who threatened him, pummelled him, slammed him into a concrete wall, and ripped his shoulder out of its socket, all of it, he says, totally unprovoked. Miller has filed a lawsuit. The guards and the county have denied his allegations.

MILLER: There is no one in this world -- in this world -- who could ever convince me that I deserved any aspect of the beating, the torture, the brutality, and to place me in such fear of my life, that I knew I was going to die, and I was not going to see my kids, my children, my family, no one.

KOCH: Remember, this is a county jail. Most of the inmates have not been convicted of a crime, and many spend only one night here, after being arrested on minor offenses.

That's exactly what happened to this 27-year-old woman, arrested for public intoxication in 2001. This surveillance video shows her being walked into the booking room, resisting officers. A guard throws her down, face first. Later, as she kicks while held in a restraining chair, another officer takes a can of pepper spray, pries open her left eye, and shoots point blank.

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08.11.2007, 03:06 PM	#4
atari 2600 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,213	PRESTON WELLS, FORMER JAILER: I have seen people get punched. I have seen people get kicked. I have seen, you know, basically, just beat them -- that's about as best I can describe it -- I mean, for no reason. CROSBY: It was not a racial issue. It was across the board. It was just an issue of people having complete power over other people who were in a compromised position, with no power. And that was it, and that was their excuse to just unleash holy terror upon them. KOCH: Roderick Miller is a former inmate. RODERICK MILLER, FORMER INMATE: I was punched. I was drug across a bench. I was kicked. KOCH (on camera): Did they say anything while they were doing this? MILLER: He repeatedly said he will kill me. He says, "I'm going to kill you." KOCH: Did you believe him? MILLER: Yes, I did believe him. I knew I was going to die. KOCH (voice-over): Miller says, during his single night in jail, he was attacked by two guards, who threatened him, pummelled him, slammed him into a concrete wall, and ripped his shoulder out of its socket, all of it, he says, totally unprovoked. Miller has filed a lawsuit. The guards and the county have denied his allegations. MILLER: There is no one in this world -- in this world -- who could ever convince me that I deserved any aspect of the beating, the torture, the brutality, and to place me in such fear of my life, that I knew I was going to die, and I was not going to see my kids, my children, my family, no one. KOCH: Remember, this is a county jail. Most of the inmates have not been convicted of a crime, and many spend only one night here, after being arrested on minor offenses. That's exactly what happened to this 27-year-old woman, arrested for public intoxication in 2001. This surveillance video shows her being walked into the booking room, resisting officers. A guard throws her down, face first. Later, as she kicks while held in a restraining chair, another officer takes a can of pepper spray, pries open her left eye, and shoots point blank. http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:4RxjFudLxHwJ:transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0707/24/acd.01.html+harrison+county+devils%27+chair&hl=en& ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us
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