As federal prosecutors pressed ahead Thursday with their abuse case against three Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies, the man who was beaten by them as well as a former deputy took the stand.
Prosecutors allege that the deputies handcuffed and then beat Gabriel Carrillo, who had come to visit his brother at Men's Central Jail, after Carrillo was found carrying a cellphone in violation of jail rules and mouthed off to a deputy.
The deputies are also accused of lying about what happened during the February 2011 encounter by falsely claiming in reports and court testimony that Carrillo attacked them when one of his hands was uncuffed for finger printing.