Alleged Beating of Elderly Man By Cop Leads to Lawsuit Payout

By Lindsey Reiser
KTSM News Channel 9
Nov. 30, 2010

I love the way this is worded. $15,000 is absolutely nothing when it comes to police payouts, yet they frame it as if they gave him the world. In the last two years, the city has paid out almost $600,000 from lawsuits against the police department. One lawsuit involves an elderly man who says he was beaten by an undercover police officer. The city agreed to pay him $15,000.

The man who says he was beat up is now almost 81 years old. He says the officer, who's six feet, three inches tall, and weighs in at 270 pounds, beat him until he was unconscious. When the man woke up he was in handcuffs.

"He had bruises all over his arms, and he handcuffed him, and Charles was laying on the dirt in handcuffs and hollering at me, Gabe, Gabe," said Gabriel Casarez. Powerful images still fill his mind, more than 4 years after an incident left his neighbor badly bruised.

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