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Police Body Camera Arrested Kenta Settles Raw Footage Bleeding Garfield Heights Cops Leaked Footage

Mentally ill man spent nearly 5 months in jail before body cam video revealed officers beat, tased and mocked him. A group of Garfield Heights police officers punched, kicked and repeatedly ... Mentally ill man spent nearly 5 months in jail before body cam video revealed officers beat, tased and mocked him. A group of Garfield Heights police officers punched, kicked and repeatedly shocked a man who suffered from bipolar and schizophrenia disorders with a stun gun, according to body camera videos obtained by cleveland.com. The videos show the officers hurl curse words at 28-year-old Kenta Settles as he lay handcuffed on the ground. Officer Michael Malak stopped Settles Jan. 23 as he walked on the sidewalk on Turney Road in the city’s main business corridor. Malak immediately detained Settles without telling him why, and, in a matter of seconds, Malak and another officer, Robert Pitts, tackled Settles to the ground and shot Taser prongs into his back as he lay in the fetal position, the videos show. The ensuing scuffle left Malak with a broken nose and Settles with a chipped tooth, a rotator cuff injury and a slice near his eye, according to police and court records. Settles was indicted by a grand jury seven days after his arrest on charges of felonious assault of a peace officer and obstructing official business. He was jailed on a $250,000 bond. Garfield Heights police were cleared two weeks after his indictment by an internal investigation that lay all of the blame for the altercation Settles. He remained in jail for nearly five months, facing more than two decades in prison, as his case inched through the court system. Then the disclosure of the police officers’ body camera videos, which had been a public record for more than five months, sparked a flurry of developments in the last week. A judge on June 8 granted Settles a personal bond and released him from the county jail. Settles on Thursday filed a lawsuit in federal court in Cleveland accusing Malak, Pitts and three other Garfield Heights officers who aided his arrest of using excessive force against him and violating his constitutional rights. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley’s office on Friday dismissed the criminal charges against Settles, two days after the county prosecutor whose office indicted Settles in January viewed the body camera video for the first time. Show more