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 Kentucky State Police trooper indicted in March for allegedly assaulting multiple people and committing perjury is now facing a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a construction worker he is accused of macing and repeatedly tasing without reason.
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.
Three employees at the Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex were fired and one suspended for 30 days last June for tasing inmates or preventing officers from using tasers on inmates who failed a drug test while in custody.
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.
