Update 4:18 p.m.: On Tuesday, Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Keith Higgins requested the GBI investigate the use of force incident. “GBI agents will conduct an independent & thorough investigation,” the GBI said as part of a statement. “Once the investigation is complete, we will provide the file to the Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office.”Initial report: The Camden County Sheriff is launching an investigation after video shows four deputies beating an inmate in his cell at the Camden County Detention Center.The incident happened in September. Harry Daniels, the inmate’s attorney, is calling for a criminal investigation by the Camden County District Attorney and an investigation by the United States Justice Department. The video shows what happened to 41-year-old Jarrett Hobbs. He had been in jail charged with speeding, driving with a suspended and or revoked license, and possession of a controlled substance.TRENDING STORIESInaccurate speeding tickets issued from school zone camera in Effingham CountyPolice give update in landfill search for missing Savannah toddler Quinton SimonMissing in South Carolina: Authorities searching for 16-year-old girl who vanished FridayThere is no audio, so there is no indication of what led up to the confrontation. The video shows four deputies push Hobbs against the wall and pummel him with punches to his face and body. The assault lasts about 30 seconds inside the cell. “It is difficult to watch. Difficult to see a human being beaten as if he is nothing. I am not even going to call him an animal because an animal shouldn’t be beaten like this,” said Harry Daniels, who is Hobb’s attorney. A camera posted in the hallway captures a deputy slamming Hobbs into a wall and then two others appear to be kneeing him for another 20 seconds as Hobbs falls to the ground. “They beat this man. They beat him. He could have died. He talked about he didn’t want to go to the ground because he didn’t want to be the next George Floyd,” Daniels saidThe video became public because the Camden County Sheriff’s filed assault charges against Hobbs. It was used as evidence at his federal probation hearing. Daniels said he wants to the Camden County District Attorney and the Justice Department to investigate. Daniels said a civil lawsuit will likely be filed against the sheriff and the county. “There is nothing that will show provocation of a man almost beat to death. Thank God, he didn’t die,” Daniels said.On the sheriff’s office Facebook page, Camden County Sheriff Jim Proctor wrote that he has “reviewed the video … ordered an internal investigation of the incident to begin immediately … If deemed necessary, an additional agency will assist with the investigation.”Daniels said his client is no longer in the Camden County Detention Center and the charges against him in Camden County are still pending.
Update 4:18 p.m.: On Tuesday, Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Keith Higgins requested the GBI investigate the use of force incident.
“GBI agents will conduct an independent & thorough investigation,” the GBI said as part of a statement. “Once the investigation is complete, we will provide the file to the Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office.”
Initial report: The Camden County Sheriff is launching an investigation after video shows four deputies beating an inmate in his cell at the Camden County Detention Center.
The incident happened in September. Harry Daniels, the inmate’s attorney, is calling for a criminal investigation by the Camden County District Attorney and an investigation by the United States Justice Department.
The video shows what happened to 41-year-old Jarrett Hobbs. He had been in jail charged with speeding, driving with a suspended and or revoked license, and possession of a controlled substance.
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There is no audio, so there is no indication of what led up to the confrontation. The video shows four deputies push Hobbs against the wall and pummel him with punches to his face and body. The assault lasts about 30 seconds inside the cell.
“It is difficult to watch. Difficult to see a human being beaten as if he is nothing. I am not even going to call him an animal because an animal shouldn’t be beaten like this,” said Harry Daniels, who is Hobb’s attorney.
A camera posted in the hallway captures a deputy slamming Hobbs into a wall and then two others appear to be kneeing him for another 20 seconds as Hobbs falls to the ground.
“They beat this man. They beat him. He could have died. He talked about he didn’t want to go to the ground because he didn’t want to be the next George Floyd,” Daniels said
The video became public because the Camden County Sheriff’s filed assault charges against Hobbs. It was used as evidence at his federal probation hearing. Daniels said he wants to the Camden County District Attorney and the Justice Department to investigate. Daniels said a civil lawsuit will likely be filed against the sheriff and the county.
“There is nothing that will show provocation of a man almost beat to death. Thank God, he didn’t die,” Daniels said.
On the sheriff’s office Facebook page, Camden County Sheriff Jim Proctor wrote that he has “reviewed the video … ordered an internal investigation of the incident to begin immediately … If deemed necessary, an additional agency will assist with the investigation.”
Daniels said his client is no longer in the Camden County Detention Center and the charges against him in Camden County are still pending.