Before they were identified by their own department as encouraging a rookie to cut into a homeless man’s body, two Salt Lake City police officers were sued in other cases involving people experiencing homelessness.
In a complaint filed last summer, former Officer Mark Keep is accused alongside three of his colleagues of using bodyweight to hold a handcuffed man down on his stomach until he stopped breathing and died.
A separate case alleges that Mullenax and his partner broke a homeless woman’s leg during a struggle to get her handcuffed. The leg later had to be amputated…