Florida inmate uses smuggled cellphone to capture beating

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Florida inmate uses smuggled cellphone to capture beating

By MARCUS LIM
July 17, 2019

MIAMI (AP) — The Florida Department of Corrections is investigating a prison beating after an inmate used a smuggled cellphone to shoot video of several guards punching an inmate who was being held on the ground.

An unnamed Lake Correctional Institution inmate in Clermont gave commentary as the beating happened. The video lasted five minutes and inmates in the recording said that the beating had gone on for five minutes before they began recording it. The incident took place on July 8th.

An inmate sent the video to his friend, Joshua Polulech, who uploaded it to YouTube .

The video shows a group of officers encircling the inmate and several threw punches while he was held on the ground. Eventually more officers came out, joining the attack.

Polulech, a former inmate at the prison, said that the inmate who recorded the video was transferred after prison officials identified him.

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[tblue37]

1. K&R for visibility. nt

[malaise]

2. This needs to be seen

Get thee to the greatest page

[trof]

3. Here's the video. Hard to tell what's happening.

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[marble falls]

4. I see a guy who is not resisting taking a severe beating. Those guards ...

seriously wailing on him. A fractured jaw and a broken ribs worth. The prisoner is five feet tall and not much over 120#.

That crap was uncalled for. He got caught with a phone charger and he tried to run away from the beating he got anyways.

[Xipe Totec]

5. K&R for visibility nt

[orangecrush]

6. The U.S.

Currently incarcerates more people than any country in the workd.