Associated Press
EUGENE, Ore. — A retired psychologist is suing after he claims Lane County sheriff’s deputies used excessive force and inured him last year after a drunken relative falsely accused him of assault.
The Register-Guard reports that 79-year-old John William “Jack” Dresser filed an excessive-force suit this week in U.S. District Court in Eugene. In the complaint he says he required immediate surgery for a rotator cuff tear in his shoulder after he was released from custody in May 2014.
Dresser says after he was booked into jail a female deputy grabbed his left arm and began walking him toward a cell. A second deputy grabbed Dresser’s right arm and pulled it upward, causing the shoulder’s rotator cuff to tear.
Sheriff’s office spokeswoman Carrie Carver declined to comment on the suit.