By C1 Staff
PHILADELPHIA — Video has surfaced of an altercation between a handcuffed inmate and corrections officers, and the attorney of the inmate in question is looking to sue for excessive force.
Fox News reports that Jonathan Akubu had been pepper sprayed and handcuffed after an argument with an officer. In the video, he is being escorted to get medical treatment when suddenly one of the officers puts him in a headlock.
The officer, whose name has not been released while the case is pending, says that Akubu was threatening them verbally and then spit on him.
Another angle shows the officers taking Akubu aside and delivering fifteen punches to the face while the inmate remains handcuffed.
Akubu claims that another officer told the one who struck him that he needed to “figure out how he was going to get out of this one.” He also claims that the officer bit him in the head.
An official with the prison, Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility, says the officer did face preliminary discipline for excessive force. Akubu’s attorney, Guy Sciolla, is infuriated that the officer is still working in a different unit.
Akubu himself has had close to 20 incidents himself, according to the same official, with an extensive and violent disciplinary history. The inmate claims he’s been denied a hearing on the incident as well as medical treatment, which the prison has stated as not true.