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Jacksonville sheriff says body camera video shows officers were justified in beating suspect

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A Florida sheriff says body camera video shows his officers were justified when they beat a drug suspect who appeared to resist arrest even after being zapped with a stun gun

This photo taken from cellphone video provided by Ruby Anderson shows Le’Keian Woods, with swollen eyes and a bloody face sitting on the ground surrounded by officers, as he's taken into custody, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, in northeast Florida. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office was conducting an administrative review of what happened to see if any policies were violated, the agency said in a statement.

Mug shots taken after Woods' arrest shows him with both eyes swollen shut and bruises and cuts on his face. Harry Daniels, Woods’ attorney, said he will petition the U.S. Justice Department to investigate his client's beating. Sullivan then jumps on top of Woods and repeatedly tells him to put his hands behind his back. Woods, who is 5-foot-8-inches tall and 160 pounds , squirms and sometimes puts one hand or the other behind his back, but then moves the other beneath him.

Daniels, Woods' attorney, said that the sheriff's office had no legal reason to stop the truck. In the report, the officers said they originally tried to stop the truck because the driver wasn't wearing his seat belt, but he wouldn't pull over. Woods was being held Monday at the Jacksonville jail. He has been on probation after pleading no contest to a 2017 robbery in Tallahassee in which he and his roommate tried to rob a marijuana dealer at gunpoint, according to court records.

 

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