An updated citizen complaint alleges excessive force against three Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies and two security guards for doing nothing to stop a deputy who shoved a 71-year-old woman to the ground and seriously injuring her.
The woman, Ourania Thimmhardy, spent months in the hospital after she was pushed out the front door of the Sacramento County Main Jail. Mark Merin, her attorney, has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office in federal court.
Merin sent the updated citizen complaint on Sept. 10 to the sheriff’s Internal Affairs Bureau, the county’s Office of Inspector General and the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. The complaint, which provides a detailed account of the incident based on images from the deputies’ body cameras and jail security cameras, asks for a full investigation into what happened to Thimmhardy that night at the jail…