From the Save Anaheim blog
A federal jury awarded $612,000 to a jaywalker, finding that Santa Ana police officer Steve Chavez Lodge used excessive force by throwing him to the ground and beating him with a baton.
The jaywalker, Hossein Farahani, incurred injuries to his back including a ruptured disc and a slash to his head that required 8 stitches. Farahani’s lawyer, Jerry Steering, said “this was the most horrible things I’ve heard of. What this officer did to my client was pure torture.”
Read the full story on the LATimes website here.
Click here to read the rest of this article and to find out why Lodge also served a four hour suspension…
