Shocking photo reveals brutal injuries suffered by a black man, 28, at the hands of white Mississippi deputies during a traffic stop - but cops claim he resisted arrest
- David Logan was arrested in Yalobusha County on July 18 after 'seemed to be high on drugs' and 'resisted arrest' at a traffic stop
- On Monday, his lawyer shared a photo on Facebook showing Logan with blood streaming down his face and dripping onto his chest and shorts
- Attorney Carlos Moore says Logan was brutally beaten by white deputies and cops while unarmed and in handcuffs
- Yalobusha County Sheriff Lance Humphreys defended his deputies, saying that Logan ran at them and resisted arrest, leaving two officers injured
A Mississippi civil rights lawyer says his
black client was brutally beaten by white law enforcement officers
during a traffic stop earlier this month, but a sheriff has hit back
saying the man seemed to be high on drugs and resisted arrest.
Attorney
Carlos Moore on Monday shared a graphic photo showing 28-year-old David
Logan with his wrists restrained with handcuffs behind his back and
blood streaming down his face and dripping onto his bare chest and blue
shorts following his July 18 arrest.
According
to Moore, his client walked away from officers but wasn’t running away
at a police roadblock in northern Mississippi’s Yalobusha County.
David Logan, 28, is
pictured covered in blood after his arrest on July 18 in northern
Mississippi on drug possession and resisting arrest charges
Moore said officers used a
stun gun and beat Logan, who was unarmed and in handcuffs at the time.
The 28-year-old had to be treated at two hospitals for a broken bone
near his left eye.
He said Logan now suffers from double vision and sleeping problems.
'They roughed him up to the extent that he was out of his clothes,' Moore said.
Yalobusha
County Sheriff Lance Humphreys defended his deputies, saying that Logan
ran at them twice and that two officers were injured during the
altercation
Moore said he did not know the name of the person who took the photo of his bloodied client in front of a cinderblock wall.
In
a separate interview Monday, Yalobusha County Sheriff Lance Humphreys
said the officers are white but disputed the rest of Moore’s account.
'That’s not even close to what happened,' Humphreys, who is also white, told The Associated Press.
Humphreys
said officers from the sheriff’s department, the Water Valley Police
Department and Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics were checking driver’s
licenses at a roadblock when they pulled over Logan.
The sheriff said officers told him that Logan got out of the vehicle and ran toward them twice.
'He lowered his shoulder and tried to go through them,' Humphreys said.
He said the officers used a stun gun on Logan and arrested him but didn’t beat him.
One
officer whose knee was injured during the confrontation is now working
desk duties and will have to have surgery, and another officer receive
injuries to leg ligaments.
source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7301931/Photo-reveals-injuries-suffered-black-man-hands-white-Mississippi-deputies.html
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