Clark County jail inmate alleges excessive use of force
By David Kihara
Las Vegas Review-Journal
LAS VEGAS — The treatment of a county jail inmate injured when a corrections officer detonated a flash-bang grenade in his cell is now at the center of a federal lawsuit and a Metropolitan Police Department internal affairs investigation.
The inmate, Sergio Ramirez, was stripped naked and kept in a cell for four days without medical care for his festering burns, contends the lawsuit, which seeks $3 million in damages for the Nov. 21 incident. Photos attached to the lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court show Ramirez injured from hip to shoulder.
“I did not resist or threaten any officer in any fashion or break any rules,” Ramirez wrote in a grievance dated Dec. 10.
The lawsuit names Clark County, the Metropolitan Police Department, nine corrections officers and medical providers as defendants. The officers, identified only by first initial and last name, are Sgt. K. Wooten, Sgt. D. Aspiazu and officers D. O’Barr, R. Adams, W. Hampson, H. Rodriguez, P. Torres, J. Rangel, and D. MacArthur ... Full Story