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Jail Guards Get Qualified Immunity for Beating, Pepper Spraying Prisoner Who Commits Suicide

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2008

Filed under: Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Qualified Immunity, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Mental Health, Suicides. Location: Arkansas.

The decedent was arrested for public intoxication; there was a fight when he was booked, resulting in his being sprayed with pepper spray or other chemical restraint. The officers carried him to a cell and sprayed him again. Later, another officer told him to quiet down or he would "get …

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