Sunday, August 28, 2005

Excessive force? No way!

It looks like we’ve going to have a very interesting case ahead of us. A man has come forward and said he witnessed the five deputies beating James Moore last week. Moore died six days later. Sergio Ojeda was sitting in the booking area when he saw Moore, handcuffed and shackled, resisting efforts to remove him from a cell and into a patrol car. Moore apparently was not ready to leave. According to the witness the deputies hit Moore in the side, kicked him, and pounded his against the car. Eventually Moore stopped resisting and fell to the ground in a coma.

It will be interesting to see how the D.A. prosecutes this murder.