KC inmate says guard smashed his face into wall after complaint about strip search
A former Jackson County jail inmate filed a civil rights lawsuit this week alleging that guards used excessive force when he complained about being strip searched during a 2014 stay at the county detention center.
“Shut the (expletive) up,” one of the guards allegedly told Rasheed M. Early before smashing the man’s face into a wall and dragging him to the elevator by his hair, according to the lawsuit.
The suit was filed one day before the statute of limitations would have expired. Two lawsuits and two criminal cases have been filed in recent years concerning allegations that county corrections officers brutalized prisoners.
The violent incidents prompting the civil and criminal litigation occurred prior to August 2015, when county officials announced that the FBI was investigating instances of corrections officers using excessive force on detainees.
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