Nearly three years. That’s how long it took for prosecutors to charge a Miami-Dade corrections officer caught on video beating a handcuffed inmate inside a jail elevator—a delay so outrageous it practically screams indifference. According to NBC Miami, Officer Myth Louis-Jeune repeatedly struck inmate Spencer Butler during a March 2023 incident at the pre-trial detention center, yet charges weren’t filed until January 2026—and even then, only as a misdemeanor battery.
Let that sink in: a restrained man, trapped in an elevator, allegedly pummeled by someone sworn to maintain order—not deliver punishment—and the system responds with a shrug dressed up as due process.
The video makes the situation even harder to excuse. Butler can later be heard saying, “I got my a** beat,” a blunt, unfiltered account that cuts through any sanitized legal language. Meanwhile, the officer’s defense? He was “just doing his job.” That phrase has become a tired shield in cases where “the job” seems to mean unchecked violence…