The brutal 20-minute clip is one of a few dozen graphic videos saved to a thumb drive picked out of the trash by one inmate, and later secreted out of the jail by another.
One of the videos from inside Men’s Central Jail shows footage of a hallway on the 2000 floor, where a shirtless man is seated alone on a bench with his back against the walls and his hands cuffed behind him. There’s a jailer standing watch as a line of inmates files past. Seconds later, a heavily tattooed inmate walks up and speaks to the handcuffed man.
Another video inside the same jail is dated 2019 with a timestamp that reads 1:25 a.m. Even though the footage appears to be taken in the middle of the night, the camera shows an inmate sliding open the gate to slip into another man’s cell. There’s a sheet hung up in the doorway, giving the cell’s inhabitants some privacy — and also obscuring what comes next.
One of the earliest video clips, dated April 2017, shows a common room in the jail’s gay and trans dorm. Two deputies are standing in the crowded room, talking to an inmate who is leaning over a card game. It’s not clear what the problem is, but suddenly one of the deputies moves to grab the inmate from behind. Seemingly surprised, the inmate tries to squirm away.
Jailers’ use of so-called “head strikes” — the term typically used in court filings to describe deputies punching inmates in the head — has long been a sore point for the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. One guard responds immediately, picking up the baby and calling for help. Just as guards begin flocking to the scene, the video cuts off.
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