A routine escort inside the Orleans Justice Center ended with a deputy fired, arrested and facing felony charges after surveillance footage allegedly showed him shoving a handcuffed inmate into a metal doorframe, according to court records. The inmate crashed into the frame, hit his head and shoulder, and was later treated for blunt trauma and a collapsed lung. The deputy, identified in records as 40-year-old Clarence Clark, was terminated from the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office before his arrest, according to NOLA.
Video and affidavit describe abrupt shove
An arrest affidavit by Detective Tyrone Jones, cited by NOLA, says surveillance video from Dec. 19 shows Clark escorting the inmate inside the jail, then pushing him “abruptly and without…..