The 2022 lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Louisville, claimed Hardin County Sheriff's deputies used excessive force, lied about it and violated protocol by not having EMS take Alejandro Clarke Jr. to a hospital before he went into cardiac arrest.
A federal grand jury in Louisville on Tuesday charged one former and two current Kentucky State Police Troopers with using unreasonable force for beating or tasing several people without reason over the past four years.
Kentucky State Police refused to hire Aaron Tucker four times before hiring him in 2018. He was fired in 2019 for allegedly beating a handcuffed schizophrenic man.
While an ambulance was at the scene, officers instead put Alejandro Clarke in the back of a cruiser to take him to the hospital, leaving him alone inside for about 30 minutes before he went into cardiac arrest and later was pronounced dead.
Ernest Powell Jr., 50, was arrested Monday afternoon after police say he and Vernon Wolfork, 53, attacked a woman.
Louisville Metro Police say a Louisville woman was beaten and robbed in her own back yard.
