VIDEO: Florida Deputy Drags Mentally Incompetent Woman By Leg Shackles

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A Florida sheriff’s deputy was caught on video dragging a mentally incompetent woman through a county courthouse by her shackled ankles, the Sun Sentinel newspaper reported Monday.

Deputy Christopher Johnson, a 27-year-veteran of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, was placed on restricted duty pending the outcome of an internal investigation, the Sun Sentinel reported.

The video showed 28-year-old Dasyl Jeanette Rios — who the Sun Sentinel reported had just been declared mentally incompetent during a trespassing and criminal mischief case — being pulled down a hallway in the county courthouse in Fort Lauderdale.

“Stop! You’re hurting me!” she yelled. Later, she said: “All I wanted to do was sob for a few minutes — cry.”

Attorney Bill Gelin captured the scene with his cell-phone camera. “They could have had a wheelchair, they could have had a stretcher, they could have had somebody with just the slightest bit of compassion,” Gelin told WSVN.

Watch a report below, including footage from the cell-phone video, via WSVN.

WSVN-TV – 7NEWS Miami Ft. Lauderdale News, Weather, Deco

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  1. Cops, by and large, suck.

  2. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    the slightest bit of compassion

    Ha! “Compassion” Not even the paying customers get that unless they’re a celeb or related to a state politician.

  3. Avatar for norma norma says:

    It’s beginning to look like we do need CCTV. But instead of it being aimed at our streets, it has to be covering all police personnel every minute of every day. Seems like when they don’t think they are being watched, the police treat people like animals.

  4. Too many cops must think the motto " To Protect and Serve" refers to covering their own asses and those of their fellow officers.

  5. Avatar for jinnj jinnj says:

    based on recent similar cases - - - report of events would read:
    ‘Very clear that she was providing resistance - which raised anxiety & concern for general well being of the officer … the cop courageously resisted the urge to justifiably use his firearm to subdue her.’

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