Article 65Y2W Jail guards shown beating Black Georgia detainee must be fired, lawyers say

Jail guards shown beating Black Georgia detainee must be fired, lawyers say

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Associated Press in Camden county, Georgia
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Jarrett Hobbs, 41, from North Carolina, shown on video being repeatedly punched in head and neck in Camden county jail

Attorneys for a Georgia jail detainee shown on security footage being punched by guards repeatedly in the head and neck have called for the deputies to be fired and arrested, insisting the videos show the violence was unjustified.

There is no way in hell that anybody should be beaten the way this man was beaten," Harry Daniels, an attorney, told reporters. I don't care what he did. I don't care if he knocked the damn door down. You don't beat a person like that."

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