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Capitol riot defendant alleges beating by jail guards
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Tensions are running high between guards and inmates at a D.C. jail housing many of the defendants in Jan. 6 cases, with at least one of those prisoners alleging that he was brutally beaten by correctional officers.
"Myself and others involved in the Jan. 6 incident are scared for their lives, not from each other but from correctional officers", Sandlin said during a bail hearing conducted by video before U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich. "I don't understand how this is remotely acceptable", he added, saying he was being subjected to "mental torture".
In an unusual direct plea to the judge, Sandlin said another Capitol riot defendant, Ryan Samsel, "was severely beaten by correctional officers, [is now] blind in one eye, has a skull fracture and detached retina".
Sandlin also described racial tension between minority guards and the largely white defendants, some of whom have been publicly accused of membership in or association with white supremacist groups.
Sandlin said guards tackled "to the ground" one high-profile prisoner, Richard Barnett, 60, who was photographed with his boot up on a desk in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office. Sandlin said one of the guards declared, "I hate all white people and your honky religion".
Tensions are running high between guards and inmates at a D.C. jail housing many of the defendants in Jan. 6 cases, with at least one of those prisoners alleging that he was brutally beaten by correctional officers.
