Ex-SC Trooper Pleads Guilty To Federal Civil Rights Charge
A former South Carolina trooper caught on video kicking a suspect in the head has pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights charge.
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Published: January 5, 2009
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - A former South Carolina trooper caught on video kicking a suspect in the head has pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights charge.
U.S. Attorney Walt Wilkins says John B. Sawyer pleaded guilty Monday to depriving a man of his right to be free from the use of unreasonable force by a police officer.
Sawyer was indicted in July after video emerged showing him kicking a man in the head after a 2006 highway chase. He was placed on leave and later resigned from the highway patrol.
Sawyer had pleaded not guilty in July. He’ll be sentenced at a later date. Messages left for Sawyer’s attorneys were not immediately returned.
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