Inmates Forced into Brutal Gladiator Style Combat for San Francisco Deputy’s Sadistic Pleasure
Inmates Forced into Brutal Gladiator Style Combat for San Francisco Deputy’s Sadistic Pleasure
By Jay Syrmopoulos * March 28, 2015 * Free Thought Project
“This is the most troubling and outrageous conduct I have seen in my 30 years at the Hall of Justice,” Adachi said.
San Francisco, Calif. – On Thursday, San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi held an impromptu press conference to make a shocking announcement. He announced that deputies at the city’s jail at the Hall of Justice were forcing inmates to participate in gladiator style combat against one another.
The deputies had been organizing the fights for their own entertainment, and then gambling on the bouts.
“I can only describe this an outrageously sadistic scenario,” said Adachi.
Four deputies were involved in organizing the fights, with the ringleader being Deputy Scott Neu, according to the city’s public defender. Neu was previously accused of forcing inmates to perform oral sex in 2006 case that was settled out of court.
According to the complaint, deputies would threaten inmates with beatings, pepper spray, handcuffing and even sexual assault if they didn’t participate in the fights.
Inmate Stanley Harris detailed the abuse in the complaint:
“…while I’m incarcerated, Deputy Neu made me fight another individual that we’re – we’re housed in the same tank. He made us fight. We had like two fights already. It’s like, uh, he would make us go to like a – like a (inaudible) to where nobody can see, and he would make us just wrestle and fight each other to his own entertainment.”
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