"They're sworn to uphold the law, but five Summit County Sheriff's deputies assigned to guard inmates, are now inmates themselves.
All five deputies turned themselves in to authorities at the Summit County jail around 11:00 Monday morning, accused of causing the death of 28-year-old inmate Mark McCullaugh, Jr. on August 20, 2006.
Deputy Stephen Krendick is charged with murder. Sgt. Bret Hadley and Deputy Brian Polinger are each charged with reckless homicide. Deputies Mark Mayer and Dominic Martucci are both charged with felonious assault.
Cuyahoga County prosecutors were assigned to investigate the case.
A spokesman for the prosecutor's office says McCullaugh was tasered, assaulted and gassed with riot spray, during the attack which lasted 45 minutes.
Prosecutors say the officers did not follow procedures to subdue the 300 pound man.
"Forty percent of them (inmates) have serious mental problems and we're dealing with them from a law enforcement point of view, we're not trained to deal with them mentally." said Summit County Sheriff Drew Alexander, who neither condemned nor condoned his deputies' actions."
Now, I'm aware that most members of law enforcement are for the most part functionally illiterate, but being unable to mentally deal with inmates with mental problems is admitting to a degree of retardation heretofore unimagined.
This birdbrain with a badge is in charge of men and women who must attend to criminals, and concedes his staff's lack of training, education, and from the looks of things, common decency as well.
Where do they find such men?
Thanks to The War on Guns
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