Lawsuit alleges El Paso County sheriff's deputies and sergeant used excessive force after traffic stop, leaving Pa. woman with debilitating back injury
Body-worn camera footage from federal lawsuit filed against El Paso County sheriff by woman who claims excessive force was used during a traffic stop and arrest for resisting. Charges later dismissed. A Pennsylvania woman needed spinal fusion surgery after two El Paso County sheriff’s deputies and a sergeant used “unreasonable and excessive force” when they slammed her to the ground, tased her in the buttocks and slammed her head in the back of a patrol car after a traffic stop went awry, a pending federal lawsuit contends. The lawsuit states that a body camera on one of the deputies th...
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