FBI investigates brutal police beating in Tennessee

by RT America
RT.com
Jul. 28, 2011

Darren Ring suffered four cracked ribs and a punctured lung after Tennessee police stripped him naked, beat him in the show and used pepper spray and a Taser on him. Now the FBI wants to know why it happened.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is opening up a probe into an alleged police cover-up of the incident.

Ring spent five months behind bars after the event. Now his court-appointed defense attorney has obtained 22 minutes of raw footage taken from a police car that night. Once the footage surfaced, charges were dropped against Ring. His attorney, however, says that the Tennessee police filed false charges against his client in order to cover up their own actions.

Police say that they were responding to reports of gunshots back in January when they apprehended Ring, who was intoxicated but unarmed. After ten minutes of brutally beating him in the snow, Ring was brought into jail. He was facing charges of resisting arrested and aggravated assault on a police officer which have since been dropped.