Clark County failed to properly train its jail deputies who used excessive force against O’Neal Payne III, an unarmed Black man who was slammed against the bunk in his cell and then dragged around by a rope tied to his handcuffs, a federal lawsuit alleges.

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Portland

Multnomah County

Oregon

United States

Lawsuit filed against Clark County jail deputies after video showed them dragging handcuffed Black man with rope

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A Black man formerly held at the Clark County Jail has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in connection with a 2021 incident in which deputies pulled him across his cell by a tether. Read more...

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Vancouver

Clark County

Washington

Black man files civil rights lawsuit over 2021 use-of-force incident at Clark County Jail

A former Clark County Jail inmate filed a lawsuit last week against the Southwest Washington county over allegations of excessive force, negligence and a failure to train employees.The case stems from an Aug. 13, 2021 incident when inmate O’Neal Payne, who is Black, was lodged in the jail. The suit alleges that during a routine check of his cell for contraband and to remove garbage, deputies slammed Payne into a wall, tied a rope around his wris…

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Former jail detainee files suit against Clark County alleging excessive force

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A former inmate has filed an excessive use of force lawsuit against Clark County, alleging he was slammed into his bunk by corrections deputies before they dragged him around his cell by a rope, according to court documents. The lawsuit was filed January 17 in the Western District Court of Washington in Tacoma by former inmate O'Neal Payne III against Clark County, a former Clark County Sheriff, and five corrections deput…

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Former inmate dragged by rope in Clark County Jail cell by deputies: Lawsuit

The man ignited in February 2022 by stun gun-wielding Osceola County deputies at a Wawa gas station is angling to put the sheriff’s department on trial, blaming Sheriff Marcos Lopez for a “culture of sanctioning excessive force.” A 29-page civil complaint was filed Wednesday, almost two months after Deputy David Crawford was acquitted of misdemeanor culpable negligence in the criminal case emerging from the incident. At trial, he was accused of …

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Orlando

Orange County

Florida

Lawsuit over 2022 stun-gun gas fire accuses Osceola Sheriff Lopez of ‘sanctioning excessive force’

A man who was detained at a Washington county jail has scars from when he was tied to a rope and dragged across his cell floor by corrections deputies, according to a new federal lawsuit. O’Neal Payne was handcuffed behind his back by three deputies who first entered his cell at the Clark County Jail in Vancouver on Aug. 13, 2021, to collect his food trays, the lawsuit says. One of them, ...

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Tacoma

Pierce County

Deputies tie handcuffed man to rope, drag him across jail cell floor in WA, lawsuit says

O’Neal Payne, who was formerly incarcerated at the Clark County Jail in Washington State, has filed a lawsuit against the facility.

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Black Man Files Lawsuit Against Clark County After Cops Drag Him Across Jail Floor

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Lawsuit filed against Clark County jail deputies after video showed them dragging handcuffed Black man with rope

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