Deputy Dragged Woman - Authorities in Florida are investigating a sheriff's deputy who dragged a mentally incompetent woman by her leg shackles through the hallway of a courthouse.
The incident, which happened on Monday morning in Broward County, came to light after a video recording by attorney Bill Gelin surfaced.
"They could have had a wheelchair, they could have had a stretcher, they could have had somebody with just the slightest bit of compassion," Gelin said.
Now authorities are questioning why Deputy Christopher Johnson dragged 28-year-old Dasyl Jeanette Rios thorough the courthouse.
Broward Sheriff Scott Israel says the agency's internal unit would conduct an investigation into why Johnson, who has been in the force for 30 years, was dragging Rios, who apparently wanted to talk to her mother after a court appearance. She had just been found mentally incompetent to face trial in a probation violation case.
Johnson has now been reassigned to desk duty. He will have no contact with inmates during the investigation into the incident.
"My only concern is that the deputy might have had other options, "Israel said. "He could've gone through a different course and performed it a different way."
Sources reveal that while the deputy dragged Rios through the hallway, she sobbed and pleaded with him to stop because she was hurting.
"You're hurting me. You're fucking hurting me. Stop. You don't give nobody a chance," she said while being dragged, according to Daily Mail.
"All I wanted to do was sob for a few, cry. That's all [I] wanted to do was cry for few minutes because my life is in your hands."
"I'm not going back to get beat up," Rios said repeatedly.
Rios was sitting on a bench and had argued with a female deputy before the incident. She was surrounded by officers and bailiffs when Johnson came to her. She reportedly tried to hold on to a signpost before being dragged.
Rios's mother Sylvia, an assistant principal at a local high school, said she was packing her things when she heard her daughter screaming in the hallway.
"I realized they were doing something to my child...I don't think I'm ever going to get over this," Sylvia said.
Johnson explained in his official reports that "fearing she would cause a commotion in the public area, I then physically grabbed inmate Rios by her leg restraints and pulled her back to the D 10- door."
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