Sacramento DA issues Flash Bang Incident Report after elections take place

Granted, some of the inmates in Sac County jail are in their for violent crimes against others, but the Sac Sheriff's department is Racist, Sexist and acts like a bunch of thugs. These cops are no better than those they have in custody. It's extremely coincidental that a six month investigation by the Sacramento District Attorney's office, is released two days after the election. Blanas' appointed McGuiness to run in his place in the recent election unopposed until he was challenged by a fired deputy. Bret Daniels is a former deputy with Sac Sheriff, who upon departure from the sheriff's department ending up becoming the mayor for Citrus Height, according to reporting in Sac News & Review. McGuiness won on Tuesday and claims some bullshit independant review panel will exist in the future to address his cops beating people down with impunity.

Now this Flash-Bang report comes out and the DA states the blue wall of silence leaves it so beyond a reasonable doubt, they can't prosecute the corrupt cops for inhumane treatment of a prisoner, assault by an officer or corporal punishment of a prisoner.

Amnesty International wrote in September 2005

Transgender woman ill-treated and raped in jail

Kelly McAllister, a white transgender woman, was ordered out of her parked truck on 16 August 2002 by deputies from the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department (SCSD). When she refused she was reportedly beaten, pepper-sprayed, hog-tied,(1) dragged across the pavement face down and eventually put in a patrol car. She says her repeated requests to use a toilet were refused and, while she was still in the car, she defecated in her clothing.

Kelly McAllister was charged with assaulting the police and taken to Sacramento County Main Jail. Sheriff’s deputies, jail personnel and other inmates reportedly subjected her to humiliating and threatening treatment, including transphobic(2) verbal abuse, such as calling her a "she-male". She says she was strip searched by male guards.

Following a separate incident on 6 September she was returned to Sacramento County Main Jail for three days, during which time she was put in a bare, cold basement cell. When she complained, guards reportedly threatened to strip her naked and put her into a metal restraint chair.

Kelly McAllister states that she suffered more transphobic verbal abuse. Later, guards put her in a cell with a male inmate, who was much taller, heavier and stronger than her. She alleges that the inmate repeatedly struck, choked, bit and then raped her. Hospital medical staff who treated her injuries confirmed that she had been sexually assaulted.

Illegal Strip Searches up until 2003

This is the same jail that paid $15 million in 2004 for illegal strips searches long after the Federal courts made a ruling on that issue. Obviously, the Sac Sheriff's think they're above the law. http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/08/01/16908151.php

Ammnesty International wrote in 1999:

In July 1998, a mentally disturbed woman suspected of killing her child was mauled by a police dog from the Sacramento Police Department as she lay, apparently unconscious, on a motel bed. A police report confirms that the dog was not called off until after she was placed in handcuffs; she sustained severe dog bite wounds to her thigh. There are reports of other unresisting suspects being bitten by dogs from the Sacramento police and the Sacramento sheriff’s departments’ canine units.

From progressive.org

On April 17, 1995, Carmelo Marrero died in the Sacramento County Jail while strapped in a restraint chair. The County Coroner's Office said his death was an accident. Officially, his death was listed as the result of "probable acute cardiac arrhythmia, due to probable hypoxemia, due to combined restraint asphyxia, and severe physical exertion, due to apparent manic psychotic episode." As Supervising Deputy Coroner Phil Ehlert explained to the Sacramento Bee, restraint asphyxia is "a lack of oxygen caused by a highly agitated state exacerbated by the imposed restraint." A class-action lawsuit against the jail, which was eventually settled for $750,000, claimed that the device had repeatedly been used for torture at the jail and that Marrero's death was a direct result of his time in the restraint chair.