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Suit describes verbal, physical threats against boy before encounter with sheriff


Suit describes verbal, physical threats against boy before encounter with sheriff
by Cameron Steele
csteele@annistonstar.com
Anniston Star
04.06.11 - 10:52 am An Anniston woman alleges in a federal lawsuit that a Calhoun County deputy and jail officers verbally and physically threatened her 14-year-old son in the hours before Sheriff Larry Amerson used manual force on him while the boy was shackled and handcuffed.

Stacy Brown filed a civil rights lawsuit against Amerson and a deputy – identified only as “Deputy Ward” – in the U.S. District Court for Northern Alabama in Birmingham.

The suit stems from the day that Brown’s son – ...

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