Today we filed a federal Section 1983 civil rights lawsuit alleging multiple counts of civil rights violations related to allegations of excessive force which occurred during a “domestic disturbance” call involving my client, Melvin Sargent. Following a non-violent argument with his wife, deputies from the Mercer County Sheriff’s Department arrived at his home.
Due to the fact that he was open-carrying a pistol in a retention holster, as he usually did, and as he was legally entitled to do, Mr. Sargent went out of his way to raise his hands in the air and allow the officers to disarm him, following their arrival. However, as the complaint alleges, after being disarmed, he was punched in the face with a closed fist, and subjected to violence from there. His hand was boot-stomped, which resulted in a fractured hand.
After handcuffs were applied behind his back and placed in the rear of the police cruiser, his hand began to swell and cause severe pain. When he complained about the pain, the deputy violently pushed him and began punching him again. He then sprays pepper spray in his eyes for 3 to 5 seconds, and then shuts him inside the police cruiser. Afterwards the deputy walks over to Mr. Sargent’s significant other, who was filming video, where you can see his black armored knuckle gloves, covered with my client’s blood.
Read the full complaint, as filed today: https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2021/11/23/federal-civil-rights-lawsuit-filed-against-mercer-county-deputies-for-excessive-force-during-domestic-disturbance-call/
Part 1 video: https://youtu.be/84VAy5bC5IE
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Bish please!
Blood on Gloves😮. THen says wtf is wrong with him. Its you mother effer. They are animals. It's a dam Shame. I hope he's alright and she's traumatized too. When she said I'll call someone then asked if they knew her friend woman tyrant says ' I don't care who you call and no I don't know him'. She said that's because he's dead😮. Tis is beyond Krazy
Any outcome?
He calls them UFC gloves then refuses to admit they protect his hands.
06:00 "I can't bread!"
He bragged on the stand about the gloves being “UFC-type” gloves” somewhat aligning himself with a professional fight organization. Sad truly that these officers are acting this way with civilians. Bullying must stop and these insecure bullies lose their qualified immunity too. Tragic indeed.
Put sone respek on my badge
Landscape mode please
Glad I don't live in West Virginia, the vast majority of these criminal cop videos seem to come from there….
I haven't found any updates to the lawsuit, is it still on going?
Since when do police tell us what to feel? No one else has a right to my feelings. I have a right to express them, too.
Man,am I glad I don't live in west Virginia. Cops in your state are sick.
Oh, and they get so twisted when one gets ambushed. Wondering why something so terrible could happen.
U ppl are sheeps…that's all I can say,in my country we the ppl don't tolerate this kind of cops behavior…USA "land of slavery and the home of cowards"
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All the officers involved should be terminated immediately, and their certification revoked.
We the people need to take stand against the illegal unlawful job they do this is not what we pay for them
Screw that badge, these clowns deserve no respect.
ALL COPS ARE GUILTY ESPECIALLY THAT FAT COP
I feel just as sick and insidious as the July 6th of this year. The entire Police needs to be dismantled and a Federal investigatios on them and the entire judicial also. The nuts don't fall far from the tree, you
know!? I am 62, and am disgusted. Maybe we do need to dismantle all policing nationwide.