( KLFY )– News 10 has obtained exclusive video that shows deputies with the Rapides Parish jail beating an inmate . News 10 first brought you the story nearly three years ago after the victim came to us, asking to share what happened to him. The video now proves the Lafayette man’s story, and he’s filing a civil lawsuit.
The Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office told News 10 at the time that they couldn’t release the video to us because the incident was under investigation.
Lafayette man says he was brutally attacked by multiple corrections officers in Rapides Parish Jail
The video News 10 obtained was taken on surveillance video inside the Rapides Parish jail on March 19, 2021. It was only released to the victim’s attorney nearly three years later after he filed a civil lawsuit.
“I was telling the truth. Every word I said was the truth,” Malcolm X. Williams, the inmate who was beaten, told News 10.
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